That brings up an interesting possibility: can a subsurface (or any
surface) image be a subrectangle of an image used for another surface?
I'm thinking this would be possible, provided the client can tell the
wayland server to use an arbitrary stride between rows.
Then a client such as gimp could draw all it's display into a single
buffer. To get the different color correction of the center display, it
would declare a subsurface containing this and set it's color correction
differently using the wayland api. This would only allocate one buffer,
which would save memory, but more importantly it should make internal
code in gimp easier as you could work around a toolkit that assumes only
one output buffer.
The main problem I see is that the subsurface has to be opaque, because
any transparent parts would just show the same data with the wrong color
correction. But that would cover a lot of uses.
Richard Hughes wrote:
On 5 December 2012 14:32, Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote:
One of the most important use cases is a video player in a window. It
has XRGB or ARGB window decorations, usually the video content in YUV,
and possibly an ARGB overlay for subtitles etc. Currently, the client
has to color-convert the video, and merge it with the decorations and
subtitles, before sending the grand ARGB buffer to the compositor.
Sorry to be late to the party. A subsurface idea was what Øyvind and I
were discussing at the OpenICC hackfest when we were talking about
tagging a surface with a known ICC profile. This would allow a toolkit
to declare a window area to be AdobeRGB or some home-created camera
profile from a jpeg that has been tagged with an embedded color
profile.
The use case are image viewers like EOG or editors like GIMP. Gimp
wants to color correct the main preview window converting from source
ICC profile to monitor ICC profile, but we really don't want to "turn
off" the sRGB->monitor profile for the selector widgets. By using a
subsurface we get the behaviour we want without adding tons of code.
At the moment Oyranos has some kind of xatom protocol to let the
compositor know an opt-out-region and this isn't ideal or suited at
all to wayland.
Anyway, I just wanted to say "rock on" and maybe to keep ICC color
correction at the back of your mind for the sub-surface. :)
Thanks,
Richard
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