[Tuxpaint-devel] Importing photos - needs to be easier

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

Talking to myself on IRC. :)

[23:09] <kendrick> got a video someone made on how to import photos
into tux paint on osx

[23:09] <kendrick> e.g., take a photo using some webcam thing

[23:09] <kendrick> then it's: (1) drag photo to desktop, (2) load into
gimp, (3) save back out as png, (4) drag into
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/TuxPaint/saved/

[23:10] <kendrick> we need to make it WAY easier :9

[23:10] <kendrick> :(

[23:10] <kendrick> like, we can let people drop JPEGs somewhere and
they appear in the New or Open dialog.  but then we need to give a
new, PNG name when we save

[23:11] <kendrick> much like when you load a Starter.  you're opening
a PNG from 'starters', but when you save out, it acts like it's a new
picture, and invents a new filename (timestamp-based).

[23:11] <kendrick> so you can throw a "bill.jpg" in a folder, and it
will do what you expect

[23:11] <kendrick> on linux we have 'tuxpaint-import' shell script,
that uses netpbm or somesuch to do all the work and make a new image

[23:12] <kendrick> a drag-n-drop tool on osx (and windows) (and
linux!) would be nice


I can imagine how it'd work on Linux.  I've created .desktop entries
that provide a contect menu in KDE to convert photos for other purposes
(i.e., rotate, resize for a webpage, etc.)

Maybe I'll try to whip something up for us KDE folks, for now...

-- 
-bill!
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