[CREATE] Re: shared resources

[Alan Horkan]

(sorry for breaking the thread, my subscription request got delayed
and timed out but I'm properly subscribed now)

http://www.lrn.ru/~avp/specs/shared_resources_spec_0.0.3.txt

Cinepaint - ???

If I recall correctly Cinepaint uses an version of the GIMP Brush (.gbr)
extended to allow greater colour depth but with no other major changes.
(I believe these changes caused some compatibility problems which have
since been worked around.  Cinepaint largely used the same
as the gimp but with a few extras to support colour depth you might want
to update the other ??? to reflect that it supports the same as gimp and
more).

> 2.2. Vector brushes

gimp has another type of brushes .vbr which presumably are vector brushes
but I honsetly dont know
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157506

> 2.3. Gradients
> The GIMP - uses GIMP's gradients files (*.ggr), looks for them in

It also supports SVG gradients (issues with the previews but that is
another story).  Maybe someday the old .ggr can be deprecated and I hope
the efforts of the Create Project will help make that happen.  The gimp
can also use any file format supported by GdkPixbuf (png, jpg, etc) as
patterns.  I've been trying to gradually request these features so that
the GIMP can deprecate the older formats and move fully to reusable Open
Standards.  It works but it is still a long way from changing the defaults
and deprecating the old formats.

OpenClipart.org is already using /usr/share/clipart/openclipart
I'm not entirely sure about your proposal of using
/usr/share/clipart/
but for some reasons I cannot put my finger on it doesn't seem right to
put the resources directly in that directory.  (not sure what it should
be.)

more information on Karbon 14?  KOffice has recently added a generic
gradient loader and will hopefully continue to take a unified approach
whenever possible for Krita Karbon and any other appropriate applictions.

FreeBSD?  If we need a different location for BSD from Linux then our
locations are probably not correct in the first place.  Also keep in mind
no one should ever be hardcoding any locations.  There is always someone
with a legitamate reasons to install elsewhere like /opt and we can only
really set a default not hardwire any paths (but this is probably already
obvious to anyone already familiar with Unix file system layout so forgive
me if I'm stating the obvious).

Good night, hope my comments make sense, tired but had too much
caffeine...

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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