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

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:54:09AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> I'm still grappling with how a user would send a picture to Grandma or use
> it as the desktop background.
> <snip!>
>
> 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.
Hi Ben,

I tried this (on XP-SP2) and it seems to work quite well. It shows up as
a thumbnail when the view is set to thumbnails, and opens/edits the image in
the default image editing program. It also works for setting the desktop
background. 

Unfortunately, when trying to email the image using the right-click
'Send To' menu, Outlook Express and Thunderbird both try and send the
shortcut itself! The same happens if the Attach button is used or the
shortcut is drag-n-dropped.

I don't know if there is a way round this, I'm struggling to think of a
way in which this behaviour is useful :-)

Alternatively, I've got some code (Python, but using ctypes) that will
send an email using the default email client on Windows. It pops up a
compose window with (optional) recipients, subject, body and attachments
and can either be sent or discarded

http://www.johnnypops.demon.co.uk/python/simplemapi.py

It works with Outlook Express, Outlook 97 and 2000, Eudora, Incredimail
and Mozilla Thunderbird (1.5.0.2).

regards,
John.

> 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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