Okay, this is so that everyone can just stop asking why MyPaint, etc.
Around 2004 I bought myself a wacom tablet, having checked that it should work with GIMP on Linux. It did work. With minor bugs and glitches. For example, GIMP would sometimes drop a stroke when scribbling too …
GEGL (the upcoming GIMP backend) uses linear-light floating point as the main pixel format. Krita allows several colorspaces and color management through LittleCMS. What about MyPaint? Version 0.5 uses 8bit sRGB without any alpha channel. Time for a change.
I have settled now with a 16bit integer for each …