Get Hot New Stuff in Krita/KOffice

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Parker Coates wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 03:37, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > Yesterday I followed the excellent techbase instructions and added GHNS
> > download and upload to Krita. There are a couple of issues I didn't manage to
> > solve or that might be unavailable though:
> >
> > Apparently there can be only one knsrc configuration file per application,
> > which means all resource types and all their subcategories are in one huge
> > flat list.
> 
> That isn't actually true. KNS3 defaults to using <appname>.knsrc, but
> one can manually specify the filename as well. See [1] for a simple
> example.

Oh, great -- that's _very_ helpful! Thanks!

> > In Krita and KOffice we have a lot of different types of resources we'd like
> > to share and which go into different resource directories. Those resources are
> > partly specified in the Create resources spec
> > (http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Shared_resources&oldid=313)
> > and partly app-specific. Examples are brushes, brush presets, patterns,
> > palettes, backgrounds, templates.
> >
> > These resources can be categorized, and we're working on tagging
> > (http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/ResourceTagging). So, when showing the
> > GHNS dialog for brush presets, we'd like to only show the presets for the
> > current brush engine, and then categorized using tags like 'natural', 'weird',
> > 'wet' -- etc.
> 
> In its current incarnation, KNS3 doesn't support the concepts of
> tagging, subcategories or placing a single resource in multiple
> categories. If you want to add this to KOffice, I'm guessing you'll
> have to reimplement at least part of the KNS3 stack.
> 

I think I "fake" a lot of it by having a sufficiently large number of knsrc files...

Thanks again for your help!

> Parker
> 
> [1] http://lxr.kde.org/source/KDE/kdegames/kpat/libkcardgame/kcardthemewidget.cpp#330
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