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List:       freedesktop-create
Subject:    Re: [CREATE] Application specific data in OpenRaster
From:       Jon Nordby <jononor () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-12-17 16:09:15
Message-ID: f3e52ed60912170809j70814952i21aa3af39c4ec10e () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jon Nordby <jononor@gmail.com> wrote:

> In MyPaint we are storing a couple of application specific things as files
> in data/ and during a load-save cycle we recreate these files from scratch.
> This has the unfortunate side-effect that everything we don't know whats for
> gets discarded. While not really a prerequisite for fixing this, I think
> some kind of standardized name-spacing for the stuff in data/ is needed, so
> we don't clobber each others files. And specify that a round-trip between
> two applications does not delete any application specific data.
>
> So how do we do this? My initial idea is to keep it real simple:
> 1) store application specific files in data/APPLICATION/
> 2) always keep the other subfolders unchanged
>

Bringing this up again. Is the fact that one can loose or corrupt
application specific data during a roundtrip between two compliant
OpenRaster applications using a non-issue?

Are there any issues with my proposed solution? If not, I'm considering
making MyPaint and the oratools GIMP plug-in work that way.

-- 
Regards Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com

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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jon Nordby <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:jononor@gmail.com">jononor@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div>In MyPaint we are storing a couple of application \
specific things as files in data/ and during a load-save cycle we recreate these \
files from scratch. This has the unfortunate side-effect that everything we don&#39;t \
know whats for gets discarded. While not really a prerequisite for fixing this, I \
think some kind of standardized name-spacing for the stuff in data/ is needed, so we \
don&#39;t clobber each others files. And specify that a round-trip between two \
applications does not delete any application specific data.</div>

<div><br></div><div>So how do we do this? My initial idea is to keep it real simple: \
</div><div>1) store application specific files in data/APPLICATION/ </div><div>2) \
always keep the other subfolders unchanged<br clear="all">

</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Bringing this up again. Is the fact that one \
can loose or corrupt application specific data during a roundtrip between two \
compliant OpenRaster applications using a non-issue?  <br></div> \
<div><br></div><div>Are there any issues with my proposed solution? If not, I&#39;m \
considering making MyPaint and the oratools GIMP plug-in work that way.  \
</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Regards Jon Nordby - <a \
href="http://www.jonnor.com">www.jonnor.com</a><br>



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