Re: [ft-devel] [GSoC] ftinspect

[Philipp Kerling]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 15.03.2017, 12:16 -0400 schrieb Alexei Podtelezhnikov:
> 
> 
> > > > As far as gamma is concerned, it seems that Qt does not support
> > > the
> > > > necessary blending calculations [1] that were implemented in
> > > the old
> > > > utilities.  So: Should the gamma blending work exactly the same
> > > as
> > > > before (meaning that the blending code from gblender.c needs to
> > > be
> > > > ported)?
> 
> Skia is in vogue these days. Chrome seems to be using it for gamma-
> corrected blending.
Well it would be possible to integrate Skia (or something similar) for
this, but it's probably overkill when only linear blending is used. The
code is already there and porting it not going to take significantly
more time than using a 3rd-party library.