Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:32:04 +0200 From: "Ingo Ruhnke" <grumbel@xxxxxxxxx> A useful addition to Gimp would be an auto-save. Not only could it be used to periodically save the image to prevent data loss in case of crashes, it could also be used to store .xcf files for exported files automatically, when opening such an exported file Gimp could then offer an option to recover the original .xcf data from the auto-save. One issue that needs to be considered with that is what is done with very large images. For example, I have a 96 megapixel image that with multiple layers and all that winds up at over 900 megabytes. Even with a very fast computer and RAID array, the autosave delay will be significant; on the computer I created this on (Athlon 64 3000+ with 2 GB and a drive that would get 40 MB/sec on a good day) the delay would be unacceptable (as I recall, it took at least a minute to save this, sometimes several minutes). There's also the storage implication of this. -- 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 Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
