On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:18 -0700, Akkana Peck wrote: > Martin Nordholts writes: > > IMO we should not reuse gimp_file_save() for this but instead introduce > > gimp_show_save_dialog() and gimp_show_export_dialog(). I am a bit > > worried however that plug-ins will abuse this power. In your case, why > > do you need to show these dialogs? Isn't it better if the user has to go > > through a single place to save or export? > > I need to show the dialogs because the plug-in needs to save a > file (that's the whole point of the plug-in) and it seems like > bad UI to pop up the JPEG save dialog without ever showing the > user where the file is being saved, or offering them a chance > to save it somewhere else. (Have you ever been frustrated when > Firefox downloaded a file and you can't figure out where it ended up?) > Seems like it's always better UI to go through this step, so the > user knows what is being saved and where. Then please add a sane user interface to your plug-in and pop up a file-chooser. The PDB was designed to allow plug-ins and scripts to call procedures in GIMP, not to pop up specific user interface elements. It is totally not suited for this kind of usage. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
