[CREATE] Categorizing resources

[Jon Phillips]

It would be great if you guys can catalogue this on the create
wiki...seems like a good light-standard that others can use, talk about,
implement (inkscape, etc)

Jon

On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 00:44 +0300, Aurimas Juška wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > * the tag cache xml file, is the format of it specified somewhere? Maybe it
> > could be added to the set of create specs we share?
> The XML format was designed based on the needs, and each resource
> record in it looks something like this:
> <resource identifier="/home/auris/gimp/tagging/build/share/gimp/2.0/brushes/Circle-9.vbr"
> checksum="a27442e59726f27e94008e9513e9984b">
>   <tag>simple</tag>
>   <tag>project a</tag>
>   <tag>small</tag>
>   <tag>round</tag>
> </resource>
> It could be added to the set of create specs, but it was not thought
> to support other applications. Therefore, it might be needed to expand
> or change it a bit.
> 
> > * is the tag file loading for new sets of resources already implemented for
> > Gimp?
> Not yet as it is not completely decided how resource import / export
> should work in Gimp. Basically, there could be the same xml tag cache
> file together with resource files (for example, in the same *.tag.gz).
> Only the filenames would be local instead of absolute.
> 
> > * can tags be localized? That's to say, I want to deliver a set or resources
> > with a tags file that contains for every tag a translation that's visible to
> > the user.
> Can tags be localized in resource package or in application?
> If localization information would be available in resource package,
> user could choose which language to use when importing resources (but
> not later). That is one of the features to be considered for resource
> import / export system in Gimp.
> The question of translatable tags in the application was considered in
> early stages of the project, but we decided that tags should not
> contain translation info.
> 
> > * what happens when a resource is modified that has two tags, i.e., is shown
> > in two collections? Is the resource silently duplicated and the change only
> > saved in one tag, or is that something the user can control in gimp?
> I'm not sure I understand the question. There are no two collections,
> there is one filtered "view" of original collection (which is a
> collection object itself) which changes dynamically based on tags user
> wants to filter on, and changes in original collection (resources
> added, deleted). No duplication of resources is needed when resource
> is modified.
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