[Gimp-developer] XCF saving all state = no more temporary parasites

2007-11-09 Thread Raphaël Quinet
Here is a brain dump about XCF and state persistence. It is just food for thought and does not require immediate action for 2.6, except maybe for the handling of the flag GIMP_PARASITE_PERSISTENT: Some time ago, Peter mentioned that he would like the XCF file format to save all state associated

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF saving all state = no more temporary parasites

2007-11-09 Thread Raphaël Quinet
After the quick feedback that I got on IRC, I think that I should clarify a few things... If I understood correctly what Peter was suggesting some time ago, this was about making sure that the XCF files contain all the information necessary to continue your work in such a way that it would make

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF saving all state = no more temporary parasites

2007-11-09 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:15:42 -0800, William Skaggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] - All image parasites and layer/drawable parasites. They should all be persistent - no reason to have exceptions. The problem is that when a parasite gets saved, it becomes