Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-06 Thread jernej
On Monday, November 5, 2007, 21:38:52, Richard Hirner wrote: What about an option somewhere in the GIMP menus: Open brushes folder which opens the appropriate folder with Explorer / Nautilus / whatever needed? That would be one solution. -- Jernej Simončič http://deepthought.ena.si/

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Grosberg
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 15:21 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, November 5, 2007, 21:38:52, Richard Hirner wrote: What about an option somewhere in the GIMP menus: Open brushes folder which opens the appropriate folder with Explorer / Nautilus / whatever needed? That would be

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-06 Thread jernej
On Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 19:45:16, Michael Grosberg wrote: Better yet, just put it in the program files folder. This is the Windows norm for such files. No, it isn't. User's files belong to the user's profile directory - not just that, but you can't write to Program Files as a normal user

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 21:55 +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: There is a project called CREATE which does have a spec for resource/asset directory organization, I hope to be able to use it for the visible user stuff, at least. I suggest that you also have a look at the basedir

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Grosberg
Michael Schumacher schumaml at gmx.de writes: My suggestion for GIMP 2.6 - and the only thing I feel able to contribute to - is the reorganization of the user directory. Not sure about the standards on Linux, but in Windows, if we take a hint from the likes of Adobe or Autodesk,

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Esteban Barahona
2007/11/5, Michael Grosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Schumacher schumaml at gmx.de writes: My suggestion for GIMP 2.6 - and the only thing I feel able to contribute to - is the reorganization of the user directory. Not sure about the standards on Linux, but in Windows, if we take a

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread jernej
On Monday, November 5, 2007, 11:23:55, Michael Grosberg wrote: Putting resources in the user's my documents folder is bad form - this is a folder for *documents*, not resources. While I agree that putting resources in My Documents is a bad thing, the problem with Application Data is that it's

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Hirner
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:02:10PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree that putting resources in My Documents is a bad thing, the problem with Application Data is that it's a hidden folder, which normally isn't accessible. What about an option somewhere in the GIMP menus: Open

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 20:38 +, Richard Hirner wrote: What about an option somewhere in the GIMP menus: Open brushes folder which opens the appropriate folder with Explorer / Nautilus / whatever needed? There can be more than one brush folder. Sven

[Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-04 Thread Michael Schumacher
My suggestion for GIMP 2.6 - and the only thing I feel able to contribute to - is the reorganization of the user directory. Currently, the configuration (*.rc) and resources (brushes, scripts, ...) are stored into a .gimp-x.y dir in the users HOME. There are a few general problems with this