Re: [Gimp-developer] file handling, something for GIMP 2.4 ?

2005-02-09 Thread geert jordaens
Hi, if we where to write a vfs for gimp the links below provide some basic information. Anyway it helped me to understand the thread. http://www.flipcode.com/articles/article_vfs01.shtml http://koti.mbnet.fi/heitsu/vfs Geert ___ Gimp-developer mailing

Re: [Gimp-developer] file handling, something for GIMP 2.4 ?

2005-02-07 Thread Alan Bailward
Maybe when accessing files through gnome-vfs files are copied to the local system and then opened so that plugins or file ops that need to access the file directly can. Regardless of how it's done, emphasis should be put on what the user expects to happen. In this case (IMHO as a user) the user

Re: [Gimp-developer] file handling, something for GIMP 2.4 ?

2005-02-07 Thread Michael Natterer
Alan Bailward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe when accessing files through gnome-vfs files are copied to the local system and then opened so that plugins or file ops that need to access the file directly can. Regardless of how it's done, emphasis should be put on what the user expects to

Re: [Gimp-developer] file handling, something for GIMP 2.4 ?

2005-02-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Alan Bailward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe when accessing files through gnome-vfs files are copied to the local system and then opened so that plugins or file ops that need to access the file directly can. Mitch is implementing just that right now. It's already almost working in the

Re: [Gimp-developer] file handling, something for GIMP 2.4 ?

2005-02-06 Thread Michael Natterer
Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The new GTK+ file-chooser can make use of gnome-vfs, if it is available. I don't know about the details, but I assume that on win32, a similar API exists and is probably used by win32 backend of the file-chooser widget. The default behaviour of the

Re: [Gimp-developer] file handling, something for GIMP 2.4 ?

2005-02-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Natterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An alternative to implementing our own vfs would be to entirely hide file handling from file plug-ins, for example by passing them already opened GIOChannels which they would use to read/write. It woud be easily possible to make the IO channels

Re: [Gimp-developer] file handling, something for GIMP 2.4 ?

2005-02-06 Thread Nathan Summers
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:03:20 +0100, Michael Natterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An alternative to implementing our own vfs would be to entirely hide file handling from file plug-ins, for example by passing them already opened GIOChannels which they would use to read/write. It woud be easily

[Gimp-developer] file handling, something for GIMP 2.4 ?

2005-01-31 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, while we are collecting topics for a roadmap for 2.4 (and beyond), I'd like to throw another topic into the discussion. I will try to do this more often now and I'd like you to do the same. If you have specific ideas for things that you would like to work on or help others to work on them,