Hi,

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, jbaker wrote:

1) Have you thought about assigning a 'default' tag to all of the standard gimp items ? - It would be nice to filter out all of the standard items with one click...

There were thoughts to assign default tags (which are neither assigned nor removed by users), such as resource name. Perhaps they could even be translatable. However, it is not obvious how it would be better to implement such functionality.

I think resource distribution with tags assigned is one of the questions which should be addressed before GIMP 2.8 release. When GIMP detects new resources, how can it find tags for them (possibly translated) ? It also would be nice to allow user to drag-and-drop "resource pack" (*.tar.gz or similar) so that all resources with tags assigned would get installed.

2) When a user clicks the refresh button in the palettes, gradients, brush dialog or a script uses any of the 'gimp-*-refresh' procedures, what if gimp would re-read the tags.xml file at that point.

That is a good idea. It should probably not reread, but "merge" with loaded tags as user might have made changes both from GUI and manually in tags.xml.

Regards,
Aurimas

2009/1/13 jbaker wrote:

I've been messing with the tagging... Couple things came to mind...

1) Have you thought about assigning a 'default' tag to all of the standard gimp items ? - It would be nice to filter out all of the standard items with one click...

2) When a user clicks the refresh button in the palettes, gradients, brush dialog or a script uses any of the 'gimp-*-refresh' procedures, what if gimp would re-read the tags.xml file at that point. If someone wanted to write a plugin that changes the xml file, or even hand edit the xml file, the xml is overwritten by what is in memory...

3) Tagging several resources at once (requires multiple objects selection).

Alexandre