On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Jehan <je...@girinstud.io> wrote: > I'm interested to study the possibility of the workspaces on GIMP... >> in theory, we already have the themes... the workspaces is the natural >> extension of this concept... is an enhancement of the theme feature, >> but I am not safe if is good to talk in this way... because the >> workspace do not change the theme... only use it to save as the docks >> are configured or placed on our desktop in the sessionrc archive. >> > > Basically you want what other software call "profiles" to have separate > settings, right? Like you would have one *workspace* for "painting", one > for "photography editing", and so on. Is that it? >
Correct, profiles is better... workspace profiles, perhaps exemplify better the concept. This is interesting though I wonder how many user would actually use these. > I feel like while this seems like a cool idea at first, but then many users > may get used to one of their workspace in particular and in the end would > basically use only this one. > Most software which had a profile concept seem to have dropped it now. > > This said, I am in favor of enhancing capabilities of our API to allow > plugins to do far more than what they can nowadays. And this kind of > feature could be a good plugin. As for a main feature, I'm unsure. But if > others are interested, we can discuss. > I think better is a plug-in... but... as you wrote it needs "... enhancing capabilities of our API to allow plugins...". For me would be very useful to have the possibility to save the user's >> workspaces, as sessionrc, for each task, for example. The problem of >> this approach that in the current releases of GIMP is not possible use >> another sessionrc without quit and open again GIMP. >> > > Yes. As you say, technically this should be fairly easy. Now is to decide > what would make sense for the core GIMP design. > Ok, if need change the API for a specific plug-in... is better to understand if this can be useful to others plug-ins... or if is necessary to have a big picture to do the enhancements more interesting and a long term (usable for many others plug-ins -- for example, Joao Bueno has a proposal to make an assets manager to GIMP via plug-in). Americo
