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

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

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:03:29 +0100
John Popplewell <jo...@jo...> wrote:
> 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.

Ugggh.

> 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 :-)

Me too.  Does Vista have the same mis-feature, I wonder?

We've been talking about metadata without mentioning specifics.  All we
really mean is the association between a picture and the starter that
was used to create it, so that when the picture is edited again, the
code that handles the starter 'layer' still works, right?  Isn't there
some other way of keeping track of that?  Steganography perhaps?  (OK,
this would break if someone edited the image with another editor and
altered the bits used to encode the metadata in a way that broke them,
but so what?)  As for the thumbnails, they could be named with the
md5sum hash of the file, allowing for a file to be renamed without
forcing regeneration of the associated thumbnail.

Ben
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