> From: "staigermanus" <
dogwaffle@...>
> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:38:35 -0000
[...]
> Would be nice to get some insights from developers -
> is XCF (one of) the format(s) of the future? A
> common layered metafore? should we look seriously
> into support xcf natively and wth layers in
> DOgwaffle?
[...]
Let me give you instead the perspective of a
one time standards developer (for computer graphics
programming languages GKS and CGM): very probably
XCF will NOT be a "standard of the future". One
common feature of standards as the standards
developing community understand them is that
"standards" tend to be all encompassing of features
important among existing work alike "things". In
this case, Photoshop is the 800 pound gorilla in the
digital image painting industry, and xcf cannot
support many of the features (like grouped layers,
if I understand correctly) that Photoshop users find
very valuable and pass about in "work in progress"
container files.
[My opinion is worth at least what you paid for it.]
xanthian.
