>> > A useful feature, in the same vein, would be to store resources in >> > sub-folders of the normal folder, and to give them automatically a tag >> > depending on the name of the sub-folder. Maybe also this could help the >> > idea >> > of lazy loading that you mention: a given sub-folder would be loaded >> > only if >> > the corresponding tag is used as a filter. >> >> I think tags are more flexible than folders. You can put a thing in >> only one folder (category) while tagging solution allows to assign any >> number of tags (categories, keywords) that should make it easier to >> find an item you're searching for. > > I explained my idea poorly, let's try again. Suppose you find somewhere a > large set of interesting brushes, which you plan to use some times, but not > always. You install them in a sub-folder of your brushes folder, and choose > for this sub-folder a meaningful name. Then, maybe depending on some > explicit action, you would ask to import these brushes, giving to them as a > first tag their sub-folder name. This would not prevent you to add to them > other tags later, but it would automatically categorize them, and you could > look at them in the brushes dialog simply by placing their tag in the filter > field. By the way, it would also be useful, especially in this case, to have > a negative filter, i.e. filter the resources that don't have a given tag. > -- > Olivier Lecarme > Olivier - Take a look at the GURM python plugin http://registry.gimp.org/node/13473 This is what I use currently for managing my patterns, brushes, and gradients. The only drawback for me is that it only supports a single (flat) directory structure. If it were enhanced to allow selection of folders and subfolders then it would be extremely useful, rather than just really useful ;) I am not sure, however, if such a tool will work well with tagging as I do not know if once resources are unloaded the tag information is discarded and lost the next time the resources are loaded... -Rob A> _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
