It would be great if you guys can catalogue this on the create wiki...seems like a good light-standard that others can use, talk about, implement (inkscape, etc)
Jon On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 00:44 +0300, Aurimas Juška wrote: > Hi, > > > * the tag cache xml file, is the format of it specified somewhere? Maybe it > > could be added to the set of create specs we share? > The XML format was designed based on the needs, and each resource > record in it looks something like this: > <resource > identifier="/home/auris/gimp/tagging/build/share/gimp/2.0/brushes/Circle-9.vbr" > checksum="a27442e59726f27e94008e9513e9984b"> > <tag>simple</tag> > <tag>project a</tag> > <tag>small</tag> > <tag>round</tag> > </resource> > It could be added to the set of create specs, but it was not thought > to support other applications. Therefore, it might be needed to expand > or change it a bit. > > > * is the tag file loading for new sets of resources already implemented for > > Gimp? > Not yet as it is not completely decided how resource import / export > should work in Gimp. Basically, there could be the same xml tag cache > file together with resource files (for example, in the same *.tag.gz). > Only the filenames would be local instead of absolute. > > > * can tags be localized? That's to say, I want to deliver a set or resources > > with a tags file that contains for every tag a translation that's visible to > > the user. > Can tags be localized in resource package or in application? > If localization information would be available in resource package, > user could choose which language to use when importing resources (but > not later). That is one of the features to be considered for resource > import / export system in Gimp. > The question of translatable tags in the application was considered in > early stages of the project, but we decided that tags should not > contain translation info. > > > * what happens when a resource is modified that has two tags, i.e., is shown > > in two collections? Is the resource silently duplicated and the change only > > saved in one tag, or is that something the user can control in gimp? > I'm not sure I understand the question. There are no two collections, > there is one filtered "view" of original collection (which is a > collection object itself) which changes dynamically based on tags user > wants to filter on, and changes in original collection (resources > added, deleted). No duplication of resources is needed when resource > is modified. > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA + Guangzhou + Beijing GLOBAL +1.415.830.3884 CHINA +86.1.360.282.8624 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org IM/skype: kidproto Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
