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Resource tagging: future development

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Resource tagging: future development Aurimas Juška 13 Aug 17:46
  Resource tagging: future development Martin Nordholts 13 Aug 19:41
  Resource tagging: future development Alexandre Prokoudine 14 Aug 17:27
Aurimas Juška
2009-08-13 17:46:38 UTC (over 15 years ago)

Resource tagging: future development

Hello,

How do we imagine resource tagging in the future GIMP versions? It is already usable as it is, but there are many ideas which may help to make it better or worse.

First of all, multiple selection in resource windows. There is not much discussion about it, as some time ago we decided that it is important. I am working on it and it should be ready eventually. It is possible to consider multiple selections for other windows as well (layers, etc), but as Sven stated, it may be opening of can of worms (therefore, later).

Considering how tagging could be integrated in other similar applications and shared between them, some new ideas were suggested [1].

Currently tag in GIMP is a simple text string. Therefore, when switching LANG, the tags do not change (strings translated for user's locale are installed once on the first run). It was suggested to make tag a complex object, which contains all the translations all the time:

ch
see-aich
che

The advantage is that tags would be translated correctly whenever user changes language.

It is worth considering to share tags between various applications. In such case tags would have to be stored in some shared directory. Also, it is not entirely clear how multiple applications could read/write the same XML file without ever corrupting it?

Suggestions please. What resource tagging in GIMP could be in 2.8 and in the later versions?

[1] http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/ResourceTagging

Martin Nordholts
2009-08-13 19:41:45 UTC (over 15 years ago)

Resource tagging: future development

On 08/13/2009 05:46 PM, Aurimas Juška wrote:

Suggestions please. What resource tagging in GIMP could be in 2.8 and in the later versions?

Hi Aurimas,

Multiple-selection of resources and keeping translations within tags to allow switch language would be nice to have for 2.8.

If we keep all translations for a tag around, we really should add support for referencing tags as mentioned in the Create-wiki. Duplicating translations for each occurance of a tag in the xml file would result in huge xml files.

BR, Martin

Alexandre Prokoudine
2009-08-14 17:27:24 UTC (over 15 years ago)

Resource tagging: future development

2009/8/13 Aurimas Juška wrote:

First of all, multiple selection in resource windows. There is not much discussion about it, as some time ago we decided that it is important. I am working on it and it should be ready eventually. It is possible to consider multiple selections for other windows as well (layers, etc), but as Sven stated, it may be opening of can of worms (therefore, later).

It can be a can of worms from developers POV, but it's important for end-users :) Whenever it's introduced, it will be most welcome, I assure you :)

It is worth considering to share tags between various applications. In such case tags would have to be stored in some shared directory. Also, it is not entirely clear how multiple applications could read/write the same XML file without ever corrupting it?

You mean how to deal with situation when multiple applications open such a file for reading/writing simultaneously?

Alexandre