On Monday 15 October 2007, Jon Phillips wrote: > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 13:52 +0200, Cyrille Berger wrote: > > * swatch book format, the more I think about this, the more I wonder if > > the best solution isn't to simply have an archive (zip or tar) containing > > files using the currently existing file format. > > Explain that again please...feel like I'm missing something... Well I see two possibilities for a "swatch book format" : * a completely new file format XML based, defining gradients, plain color, pattern * have an archive which could contains various files using the allready existing file format for the various ressource
I see two problems of the first solution, the first one is that it means to spend time writting specification for gradient and it's not really possible to store pattern in a XML file. And in fact I don't really see a need for a specification, nor limiting the type of files in the archive. But having a mime-type that the various application could recognize as a "swatch" (aka a "ressource archive"), and then they would just load the ressource they can load, and ignore the others. -- Cyrille Berger _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
