On 07/23/2009 12:39 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:10 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: >> On 07/20/2009 06:19 PM, Emil Assarsson wrote: >>> What I really miss is to be able to remove brushes that I don't need >>> and sort/group the ones I use a lot. >>> Maybe it would be better that most - if not all - of the brushes where >>> copied to the users profile as a default instead of being static. >> I agree with that we should copy the standard brushes to the user >> profile when the profile is created, just as we do with the default >> tags. Users/distros/installers wanting to use the read-only brushes for >> some reason could manually add "/usr/share/gimp/2.0/brushes" the brush path. >> >> Unless someone disagrees here I might actually hack on this soon. > > We discussed this before and came to the conclusion that it's a bad > idea. What should be done instead of polluting the user directory with > such copies is to create a copy transparently whenever the user edits a > system resource. And there should be the possibility to easily hide > system resources. The new tags system should help with this. Being able > to hide resources by adding a 'hidden' tag was one of the reasons for > adding tags in the first place. We could either introduce a complex system to allow the user to delete system resources, or we could make it simple for ourselves and the user and just initialize the user dir with a set of default resources. I don't understand why we have to solve this in a complex way. / Martin _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
