Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Template export from Open dialog

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

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:18:09PM +0200, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:
> Hi, works fine in my box

Thanks for testing it out!


> the only thing I've noticed is that one has to go to the filesystem
> to remove the no more needed templates.
> 
> Maybe add a way to remove added templates?

Would we want to allow users to delete ANY personal template?
Or only the ones created within Tux Paint via the "Open" dialog?
If the latter, I'd need a way to flag them (perhaps a datafile
that sites alongside them).

Since the templates appear in the "New" dialog, we would need to add
an "Erase" button there (perhaps only appearing, or only appearing as
accessible) when a personal template is currently selected.
That seems a little weird, but nowhere else really makes sense!

And of course, I would probably want to be able to make the
"New" -> "Erase [template]" feature something that could be
deactivated via a simplification setting.

In fact, I already have a feature request (oof, from 2009!) to
make the "Open" -> "Erase [saved drawing]" feature inaccessible
via a simplification setting. [1]

While these kinds of simplifications may sound a little weird,
my goal is for Tux Paint to be configurable in such a way that
it's VERY difficult to accidentally clobber things, which can
lead to tears in the youngest of users who might not be good
at using a mouse yet.  (See, for example, the "saveover=new"
option.)  Disk space is cheap. [3]


[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/feature-requests/129/

[2] https://tuxpaint.org/docs/en/html/OPTIONS.html#saving

[3] I know first-hand that data loss can be emotionally traumatic. ;-)

    When I was around 7 or 8 years old, I was writing a game in BASIC
    on my Timex Sinclair 1000 (US version of ZX81), and had not yet
    saved it (to audio cassette tape, of course!)  My dad was going to
    work on something electrical and accidentally flipped the breaker
    that powered my bedroom.  Snoopy pancake flipping game, lost forever.

    A few years later, I was making a reasonable facsimile of
    Pac-Man in BASIC on my Atari 8-bit.  Unfortunately a bug in the
    particular version of BASIC I had could cause files saved to
    disk to go corrupt, after saving a certain number of times!
    Blocky Pac-Man clone, lost forever.

    I somehow managed to make a pretty playable (if not visually
    attractive, yet) clone of the game KLAX for Linux.  I was about
    to roll a tarball and post it online as an alpha version, when
    I decided to be clever and clean up my Makefile a bit.
    I accidentally got some $@ or $< confused, and accidentally
    overwrote my C source file with the executable.  KLAX clone,
    lost forever.  (I have proof of its existence, at least! ;)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQpHdSIi2wc ... SIGH!)