On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:40 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:26:59 -0700, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
One thing that you should probably make room for (but isn't implemented yet) is choosing a format for the save (so, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, etc.) I'm thinking perhaps a drop down selector above the filename?
For that I need to know what is faster -- to select one of available formats in a combobox, or to type three letters after the dot in the filename to let Inscape automagically figure out, what export algorithm to use.
Another "little" thingie is that exporting will require defining some settings like compress ration, use of LZW compression algorithm (for TIFF) etc. How a user would like to reach them? I'm not using this palette all the time, so I would like to listen to people, who have other experience. Use cases, please :)
I prefer to have the combo box because I hate requiring file extensions for anything. I think that they are an evil hack, but I understand the need to support them.
Currently the life cycle for extensions is load->preferences->execute (and unload some time later). From the programming perspective I think using the same preference life cycle would be nice and simple. This would mean that another window would pop up when a format that requires it. I don't know that this is the most eloquent, but it is certainly the easiest to program.
--Ted