On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 14:55 +0100, Pim Snel wrote:
I'd agree with Alan here. I think that ".svg.zip" would probably be better. This would probably assist in interoperability with other tools and will make users understand what they have better.
There is one advantage in giving it its own extension. The system can register this as mime type and automaticly open inkscape when it sees a *zink.
But I don't have any problems with the .svg.zip extension, so if you all agree I will change it to .svg.zip.
Can we register .svg.zip? Or is there no second period allowed for that? I'd agree that automatic opening would be better.
One thing that I'm curious about, is how we can clean up from the input extension. It sounds like it leaves the files in the temporary directory, which makes sense, but I'd like to be "good citizens" and clean up after ourselves. Does anyone have any ideas on this?
I don't really know how to achieve this? Maybe inkscape can create its own temporary directory which it removes after closing inkscape. Extensions could use this temporary directory.
Hmm, I'm not sure if this is a security risk. I think it would be okay as long as we randomly created the directory name on every run. Does that make sense to everyone else also?
--Ted