On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 19:25 +0000, Chris Mohler wrote: > >> With a recent SVN I created a new image, added guides, and saved it as >> a template. However when I create a new image and select the >> template, the guides are no longer there. Is this intended behavior? >> I can't think of any reason not to keep the guides, but thought I'd >> ask... > > No good reason except that no one has implemented this yet. OK - I took a look at the template code and after a (quick) review I have some more questions. It seems that the current implementation writes parameters to the ~/.gimp-2.x/templaterc file, which are used to create a new image. Is there a technical (or other?) reason to not use the XCF format for templates? One one hand, adding the guides to the current template system looks somewhat straightforward (like something I might be able to accomplish), but on the other hand I wonder if would be easier in the long run to handle templates as native XCF files. David's message just came to me - thanks for clarifying: > No one has implemented [image-based templates] yet; 'Save as template' > does not fully work in this sense, it doesn't save image content; It > just saves all the properties that you can see in the 'New image' > dialog, like size, units, dpi, and fill color. So it sounds like 'image-based templates' is a good idea, but one that has not been implemented yet? If that's the general consensus, I will investigate the image-based approach a bit more. No promises though - I am still not extremely good at C... Thanks, Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
