[Gimp-developer] tagged resources such as brushes, gradients, etc

[Chris Mohler]

On Jan 18, 2008 5:03 AM, Tobias Jakobs <tobias.jakobs at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2008 8:55 AM, Sven Neumann <sven at gimp.org> wrote:
> >
> > My current favorite approach is to put the tags into files in the
> > ~/.gimp-2.x directory, one file per resource type. So there would be a
> > brushrc, gradientrc, patternrc and so on. These files will contain
> > metadata from the actual resource files.
>
> One think I'm missing here is a way to share brushes with tags.
> The user scenarios I'm thinking about is:
> - Download package (ZIP-File) with a lot of brushes
> - Install them (btw. Finding the right folder and copying them into it
> looks like a problem for some users. At least it's an FAQ in the
> German gimpforum.de.)
> - Now I'd like to have this brushes tagged in Gimp and start working
> with this brushes and I don't want to tag them myself.

What about a function to "export" brushes that dumps selected brushes
to a new dir with a local version of brushrc, and a matching "import"
that reads them in - file, MD5, and tags?

Chris