[CREATE] [Gimp-developer] Brushpack file format

[Dave Crossland]

Cc zero not pd please :-)
On Apr 16, 2013 12:49 PM, "Boudewijn Rempt" <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Alexia Death wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>>       Brushpacks should not be mixed: so no mypaint brushes and gimp
>> brushes in one brushpack.
>>
>>
>> Why this restriction
>>
>
> To make life easier for users. We discussed this a lot, but creating a
> brush pack that contains, for instance, both Krita and MyPaint brushes
> wasn't seen as desirable.
>
>  and why different internal formats
>>
>
> I'm not getting this question -- the formats are there because that's how
> applications define their brushes. Mypaint's .myb format is different from
> Krita's .kpp and Gimp's .gdyn.
>
>   and why such a complicated create folder format?
>>
>
> Hm... What do you consider the complications? Basically, it's just the
> equivalent of the way the create spec stores patterns, brushes, gradients
> etc. in separate directories, extended to allow new brush types that are
> not in create, like kpp, myb etc.
>
>  It would
>> be very simple to have a pack& create forder structure that allows for
>> both mixed packets and for each app only
>> handle what it can/need...
>>
>> something along the lines of:
>> /manifest.xml
>> /coolpack-cutes/tags.xml
>> /coolpack-cutes/shared/* - resources in common formats - svg, png, gif,
>> whatever, as long as the format isnt app
>> specific, pehaps subfoolders by resource intended use...
>>
>
> I'm not really seeing right away the improvement that adding a "shared"
> directory level gives above having the common resources in their already
> defined create directory names.
>
>  /coolpack-cutes/mypaint/* -stuff in mypaint format, acceptable to mypaint
>> and dictated by mypaint
>> /coolpack-cutes/gimp/* - stuff in gimp format, following gimp resource
>> structure, subfolders for brushes,
>> dynamics, etc
>> /coolpack-cutes/krita/*- stuff in krita format that only krita can
>> understand
>>
>> and same structure in create/ resource folder.
>>
>> So, if  gimp starts supporting mypaint, all it needs to do, is dig into
>> shared mypaint resources in create. Same
>> goes for krita and for say mypaint getting a brush engine that lets it
>> read gimp resources...
>>
>
>
> If I get you correctly, you'd prefer to copy a gradient or pattern that is
> used by a brush into the create-defined location for gradients or patterns?
> We decided against that because those gradients or patterns (or even the
> brush tips themselves) are only packaged because they belong to a
> particular brush and shouldn't be automatically made available as a shared
> gradient or pattern.
>
> Boudewijn
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