Hi, "Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Can anybody explain why: > > - palettes are copied to user dir? > > - palettes are resaved every time you use them (use, not change, or at > least it seems so)? > > Would not be better to have them like the other data, in a common dir, > and then save to user dir only if changed, and with a new name like > "Foo (Edited)" or "Foo (User version)"? historical reasons > Just ideas about making the system coherent and less complex to use. > It will also make additions or changes faster, common files are always > common, no need to mess with user files. > > Uum, following the trend, why are other data fixed? It would cool to > be able to click on edit (most dialogs have a "Close" button, "Edit" > fits in the rest of space) and save modified versions to user dir > without having to locate the file, copy & rename and then edit. > > AAh, it will be nice to have "Refresh" in all applicable dialogs, so > changes can be seen on the fly. Not all of them have it, it seems to > be exclusive, "Refresh" or "Edit" (brushes seems to be the exception). > > Is this unification planned in (or a natural derivation of) Gimp 1.3 > reworkings? (I update CVS, but have not compiled / used it in a long > time) All data in Gimp-1.3 is already derived from a common object and is handled equally. Dialogs to handle the data share almost all of their code, so the user interface for all data objects is consistent too. I strongly discourage you however from trying to work with current gimp from CVS HEAD. It should become useable again in a few months. Salut, Sven
