From: inkscape-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net

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admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ted Gould Sent: 16 October 2005 05:46

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... but I think the single biggest thing Inkscape could do to help integration is notice changes in

bitmap

files. So, I link in a JPEG, and if I change that file in any other application Inkscape notices and updates instantaneously. I think

this

should be possible with further GNOME-VFS integration. Then, the command is to just to open GIMP on the file.

Yes, great. Something really simple like that. I'd support that (in Xara or Inkscape). But we'd like to go further (and part of the reason we do it the way we do with a private API) so that we pass raw (or PNG) bitmaps to and fro, to avoid the JPEG lossy cycle. We also keep the photo edit list associated with the bitmap, so you can edit it in future and alter (or undo) the previous edits you did to the bitmap. That requires a bitmap editor to remember the lists of edits, and keep a master around.

But for a basic simple, still very useful feature, just watching for file changes would seem to do the trick.