Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:03:09 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl?= Quinet <quinet@xxxxxxxxxx> It is unfortunate that the file plug-ins and the other filters are all called "plug-ins", because they behave differently. What may make sense for the filters (global settings) may be counter-productive for the file plug-ins. For the filters, the settings can be considered to be a property of the filter itself: it is reasonable to expect that applying the same filter to a different image will use the same settings as last time. However, this is different for the file plug-ins: the quality settings, image comments and other meta-information is a property of the image itself, not a property of the filter. I expect these values to remain unchanged while I work on an image, even if I open and save other images in the meantime. The Print plugin has yet another behavior; the settings are per-printer, not per-file. Conceivably they could wind up being shared with other applications that use Gimp-Print. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
