Hi, Dave Neary <dneary@xxxxxxx> writes: > > There is also a plan for adding an "Image Attributes" or "Image > > Properties" dialog and extending the already existing "Layer > > Attributes" (and similar) dialogs. A prerequisite for this is to make > > all this stuff object properties. This is a nice task for a volunteer > > who wants to get into GIMP core hacking. Let me know if you are > > interested... > > What stuff, exactly? Well, all the information that belongs to a drawable and/or image object should be object properties. This would be width, height, mode (RGB/Gray/Indexed), unit ... Having this information accessible (at least readable) via the GObject property system will make it a lot easier to write a more or less generic property dialog. > And for informational purposes, what's involved (in general) in > converting a type object attribute to a generic GObject attribute? A > link to a decent doc would probably do, if you had one handy. A must-read for every core GIMP hacker: http://le-hacker.org/papers/gobject/ The GIMP source code is a good example also. Check the app/config directory for a couple of classes that basically do no nothing but storing information as object properties. Sven
