Michael Schumacher wrote: > we've been approached on the #gimp channel by Marina Zhurakhinskaya > from > the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. She has helped GSoC applicants > with their applications and is currently looking for a mentor for the > following project: > > Full version (minus personal data of the student, of course): > > http://www.fpaste.org/qLNt/raw/ so I read the whole thing. OK, it is a gnome project, not a GIMP project, and that is good because I am 80% sure that this kind of functionality is not desirable in GIMP. This kind of mechanism is part of the nuts and bolts of _database_ type photo management apps like iPhoto, and it works there, because users (in general) do not access the file tree of the repository. So getting an image on another drive or system literally means dragging the image out of the app, not from a directory to somewhere else. This makes it an explicit export out of the app and makes it plausible why those images cannot be reverted to original. I see this not working for GIMP because it is file system based, it does not mesh well with the GEGL lossless editing metaphor, and because moving GIMP files between systems/users where it gets worked on further (with full modification history) is simply a requirement for us. what Kamila and I presented years ago in Montreal was that what we need is a _simple_ versioning mechanism inside GIMP files, built on top of GEGL. that covers (for GIMP) the user needs that this proposal tries to address. --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
