[CREATE] Re: shared resources

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 21:25 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> 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? ;)

I think this needs to be batted around a bit more...what other names
could this be? Remember, this is a big decision and should be thought
out much. It could also reflect this project by being something like:

/usr/share/create

/usr/share/creative

/usr/share/art

etc...

> > 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

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