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

[Pere P. i C. <per...@gm...>]

El dt. 30 de 05 de 2023 a les 16:57 -0700, en/na Bill Kendrick va escriure:
> 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).

I'd allow just the created with Tux Paint ones, 
custom templates added via filesystem can be removed via filesystem.


> 
> 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!

Maybe in a "manage data" tool that allows parents/teachers/big childs
to add/remove starters, templates, stamps, brushes, etc
Obviously, adding the "Erase" button in the "New" dialog
would do the job for now...

Best
Pere



> 
> 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!)
> 
> 
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