[Tuxpaint-devel] Use cases: send a picture to Grandma; use as desktop background

[Ben A. <sy...@sa...>]

I'm still grappling with how a user would send a picture to Grandma or use
it as the desktop background.

Maybe this?

v.0.9.19
- Further directory splitting (--metasavedir), to allow for, e.g., sensible
  'My Documents'/'My Pictures' use on Win32 [bjk]

How exactly would this work?  Supposing the metadata were put somewhere else
(hidden) and pictures in "My Pictures".  If you rename a picture, it will
lose its metadata because we use the filename to relate the two, which would
probably cause some puzzlement.

How about:

Keep the saved pictures and metadata where they are now, but put shortcuts
in 'My Documents'/'My Pictures' (symlinks in Desktop/My Pictures) for each
image.  Then if someone renames an image or deletes it, they are only
renaming the shortcut (symlink) so they don't break the relationship with
the metadata.

Of course, the user might reasonably expect that any image placed in this
folder should be editable in Tux Paint, and would be surprised if it were
not.  So maybe some sort of auto-import could handle this (or maybe just
a big question-mark icon in the open dialog to indicate something is there
but Tux Paint doesn't know what to do with it?)

Then we'd have to decide what to do if a user removes one of these links.
Do we treat the image as deleted and remove the copy in the hidden dir too?

Ben
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