[CREATE] Re: shared resources

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On 8/17/05, Alan Horkan <horkana at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> 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).

I hope that Robin will clarify that

> > 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

Was it ever resolved? I don't see any *.vbr in
/usr/local/share/gimp/2.0/brushes and there is only one vbr file in my
~/.gimp-2.3/brushes tha I even haven't noticed before :)

> It also supports SVG gradients (issues with the previews but that is
> another story).  

Is there a specification (RFC?) for SVG gradients you would recommend
me to refer to?

> 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.

I see. Will be reflected in 0.0.4

> 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.)

It's just an idea. Your suggestion about "art-supplies" was good indeed. 
Comments, anyone? ;)

> 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).

:)

Okay, let's not distinguish GNU/Linux from *BSD

Alexandre