Re: [Gimp-developer] green channel value in gimpviewrenderer.c

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 06:54 -0400, Elle Stone wrote:
>  From curiosity, in this file 
> https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/blob/master/app/widgets/gimpviewrendere
> r.c, on 
> line 160:
>
> gimp_rgba_set (&green_color, 0.0, 0.94, 0.0, GIMP_OPACITY_OPAQUE);
>
> Why is the green channel value for "&green_color" set to 0.94 rather 
> than 1.0? Does this affect anything during editing? Or is this just
> a 
> random default value?
>
> The channel values for the other colors in the list are either 0.0 or
> 1.0.
>
> Also, what are the functions in this file for? Why is the blue
> channel 
> not used, but rather only the red and green channel?

These are just GUI colors, used for colored frames around
previews, like in layer/mask active/visible/disabled.

0.94 probably looked better than pure green, this is
unrelated to any image pixels.

Regards,
Mitch