Hi, Continuing the work on http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Save_%2B_export_specification , here is my API proposal for common export dialog logic to be shared by file format plug-ins: GtkWidget * gimp_export_dialog_new (const gchar *format_name, const gchar *role, const gchar *help_id); This function creates a new dialog, and plug-ins then use GtkWidget * gimp_export_dialog_get_container (GtkWidget *dialog); to get a vbox that the file-format specific widgets with export options are put it. By getting rid of all dialogs that gimp_export_image() pops up, and by porting plug-ins to this new API, we have a much nicer export workflow already. You can try it out on the export-dialog-cleanup-tmp branch in GIMP git for JPEG, PNG, TIFF and BMP: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gimp/log/?h=export-dialog-cleanup-tmp One open question is how to deal with exporting specific layers to files. With the removal of dialogs in gimp_export_image() one does not have the possibility to ignore flattening/merging the image any longer, so it's not possible to export a single layer to a PNG without creating a separate image for that layer. But on the other hand, it doesn't seem unreasonable to require a user to do that if he/she wants to export a single layer. With some effort I guess we can add common logic to the export dialog to deal with single-layer exports somehow. Btw, the -tmp suffix to the git branch name is supposed to be interpreted as that the branch is volatile and no work should be based on it. / Martin _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
