[Gimp-developer] API proposal for libgimp export dialog

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 22:54 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote:

> > That's fine, but it doesn't deal with the problem of how the file
> > plug-in deals with the actual export. So far the gimp_export_image()
> > functions does take care of all the nasty details. We definitely don't
> > want to duplicate that code all over the place.
> >    
> 
> The plan is to let plug-ins still use gimp_export_image() for creating 
> an image suitable for exporting, it's just that we will remove that 
> function's bad habit of asking annoying questions in the process. This 
> is slight change in API semantics, but the ABI/API is still unchanged 
> and I don't consider this a problem.

That will break all file plug-ins that use gimp_export_image(). I am
sorry, but that is totally not an option.


Sven