Call to arms! A new GUI for Linux

Anton Markov anton-F0u+EriZ6ihBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 18 22:33:26 UTC 2004


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Anton Markov wrote:
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| |>Another good feature would be a global CVS-like system built into the
| |>implementation-independent filesystem code, which would keep track of
| |>which applications opened each file and a Changelog of the application's
| |>actions. For example, if you create an SVG in Sodipodi and then touch it
| |>up in The Gimp and convert to a PNG, you could go back, make a change to
| |>the SVG in Sodipodi, and The Gimp will know how to re-apply your
| |>touch-ups to update the final PNG.

Just to clarify my ideas some more, I am talking about a way of storing
meta data independent of the file format, and maybe even recording all
changes to it. Different programs can add their own meta data tags as/if
the programmer sees fit.

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Anton Markov <("anton" + "@" + "truxtar" + "." + "com")>

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