On Apr 13, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Florian Ludwig wrote:

The portability is an issue.. yes. But i would prefer to use it if

available. How often do you like to check the "assets" for changes? I

think its hard to find a good value of time between the checks. If you

check to often its add to much load to the hard disk (though it should

get cached by the os but older systems like windows 98 doesnt do this

well and anyway it doesnt sounds like a good solution) but if you check

Ahh...

well, Emacs, Eclipse, MS DevStudio and others all do the check when you "come back to" their app. So you don't need a time aspect at all. In fact, the workflow in that regard is probably one of the better end-user experiences.

I've often had files open in two or three of those at once, and flipped back and forth. I'd expect the same from graphics apps. I'd "flip over" to the Gimp and do some editing and hit save. Then I'd "flip back" to Inkscape. At that point it would check and then pop up a dialog informing me that files changed on disk and ask if I would like to reload.