* Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero <famrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [030714 13:13]: > ccurtis@xxxxxxxxxxx (2003-07-10 at 1140.21 -0400): > > It is very sad to see that Sven thinks that Robin Rowe is the only > > person to whom his ideas should be told. Pity the rest of the GIMP > > developers (current and future) who might like to comment on it. > > Use the list archives. Search engines let you restrict to servers. And > IIRC basically it was about packing XML and some common image format > like PNG into a some common archive format like TAR, so while not all > soft will be able to open it, at least the user will be able to > dissasamble it and load things by hand. I am currently working on some code related to how GEGL works/is going to work in cooperation with gimp, bundling complete projects in a folder/tarball could be a good idea for this as well, my current format <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <bauxite> <graph name="main" frames="200"> <node filter="avi_load" x="32" y="27"> <output id1="#1" /> <parameter name="file"> <value time="0.000000" string="movie.avi" /> </parameter> <parameter name="frame"> <value time="0" float="0" /> <value time="200" float="200" /> </parameter> </node> <node filter="bcontrast" x="32" y="61"> <input ref1="#1" /> <output id1="#2" /> <parameter name="brightness"> <value time="0.00" float="0.00" /> </parameter> <parameter name="contrast"> <value time="0.00" float="1.00" /> </parameter> </node> <node filter="tee" x="32" y="98"> <input ref1="#2" /> <output id1="#3" id2="#4" /> </node> <node filter="quadtree" x="32" y="131"> <input ref1="#3" /> <output id1="#5" /> <parameter name="threshold"> <value time="0.000000" float="78.000000" /> </parameter> </node> <node filter="quadtree" x="96" y="131"> <input ref1="#4" /> <output id1="#6" /> <parameter name="threshold"> <value time="0.000000" float="40.000000" /> </parameter> </node> <node filter="mix" x="65" y="167"> <input ref1="#5" ref2="#6" /> <output id1="#7" /> <parameter name="ratio"> <value time="0.000000" float="0.500000" /> </parameter> </node> <node filter="display" x="64" y="198"> <input ref1="#7" /> </node> </graph> </bauxite> http://phpweb.hig.no/~oey_kola/bauxite/bauxite.png contains a screenshot where a similar processing graph is being edited. /pippin -- .^. /V\ Øyvind Kolås, Gjøvik University College, Norway /(_)\ <oeyvindk@xxxxxx>,<pippin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ^ ^