Hi, On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. IMO 'both' is the correct answer. For simple templates like what can currently be expressed by templaterc, XCF is overkill*. Otherwise, using XCF for the template is fine, we can save template .XCFs in gimp's template/ directory (don't know whether it creates this itself, but I found it in my .gimp-2.7 directory.) and use the templaterc 'filename' field to point at them. Of course we should synchronize the templaterc properties like image size and units with the template XCFs as applicable. * 12k for a 2400x2400 empty grayscale image, versus ~100 bytes for a templaterc entry. > > 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? Yes, it's been planned for a long time , a field for it is already included in GimpTemplate (app/core/gimptemplate.h). Basically what needs to be done is a) set that field when saving as template, and b) use the field when creating a new image (there may be UI considerations involved here). > > 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... I look forward to seeing what you come up with. David _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
