Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources s uch as brushes , gradients, etc

2008-01-17 Thread Daniel Hornung
Ok, here are my 2¢... On Thursday 17 January 2008, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > Besides, yes, gimp would need some kind of scanning through resource > folders, and possibly group all resopurces tehre under an "all" flag. > That is needed so that one can download resources and add then to > GIMP throu

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources s uch as brushes , gradients, etc

2008-01-17 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Thursday 17 January 2008 14:45, William Skaggs wrote: > From: peter sikking [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > chiming in here (getting back to speed). [...] > > Peter! Great to hear from you again! > > I absolutely agree about the virtues of a tagging system, but > I fear that the difficulties are not be

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources s uch as brushes , gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread gg
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:50:36 +0100, William Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, to repeat, even if there is tags support, there must be, > at least from the user's point of view, something like a workspace -- > a set of brushes that are immediately available. The proposal > I made -- simpl

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources s uch as brushes , gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread William Skaggs
From: Joao S. O. Bueno [EMAIL PROTECTED] > What about using...tags... for that? [etc] These are interesting ideas, but they are fantasies at this point. The whole tags thing is a fantasy at this point. There is no infrastructure in Gimp to support it, so everything would have to be written from

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources s uch as brushes , gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:42, William Skaggs wrote: > This mixes together two separate issues.  Tags are, as I have > already agreed, an excellent way of doing a search mechanism.  They > don't get rid of the need to have a workspace, though.  Suppose I > want to switch back and forth between