[openbeos] Re: ShowImage "Mirror" Operations
- From: "Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:02:17 +0200 CEST
Waldemar Kornewald <wkornew@xxxxxxx>:
>
> Stephan Assmus wrote:
> > Ok, propose a more feature complete image viewer is supposed to be
> > a third
> > party opportunity. Suppose you were that third party. Wouldn't you
> > take
> > ShowImage and improve it? So what, then we have Haiku ShowImage and
> > ShowImage++? That just doesn't make sense to me. If I want to
> > remove red
> > eyes, ok, I fire up WonderBrush, also if I want to retouch a foto.
> > But we
> > were only talking about lossless rotation! :-)
>
> I find it ridiculous that the average user has to fire up a monster
> imaging application like Photoshop, GIMP, or WonderBrush to get *
> simple*
> tasks like "extract", "resize", "sharpen", "change contrast", "remove
> red eyes" done. There is a huge gap between simple image viewers and
> image processors.
>
Ahh, back to the discussion about "Data" and "Commands" which you can
apply on Data. And if Command cannot be applied to Data, a Filter will
take care of that. Want to touch up a foto? Fine, just select the
parts you want to fix, and select your command from the drop-down list.
Want to have something to remove red eyes? No problem, have a developer
write a new Command for you, drop it in a folder and presto -- all apps
can now do that. In fact, there wouldn't be applications anymore, just
Data and Commands.
Oh, BeOS would've been the perfect playing ground for THE...
-- Mikael
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