[Scribus] Working with Scribus when Gimp is still open ?

[Jean-Jacques Sarton]

Hi Joachim,

Joachim Breitner schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> have you considered using fam to detect changes on the file, instead of
> waiting for gimp to finish?

No, due to 2 facts:
1) fam ist buggy (in my opinion)
2) testing for file change within a programm more easy and effective
    as using external utilities.
The Problem is that under certain conditions scribus will not do what
the user expect (for example, update was called by inadvertance and
the gimp picture window was closed without saving, the user don't remember
how the file reside and under which name).


> Am Do, den 01.04.2004 schrieb Jean-Jacques Sarton um 17:40:
> 
>>Hi Sebastian,
>>
>>Sebastian R?der schrieb:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I did some exercises with the latest Scribus CVS to check out the new 
>>>features. I like the 1.2 CVS tree very much, but there is one think, which is 
>>>not very comfortable in my opinion: 
>>>
>>>When I choose "edit picture" from the right mouse button content menue, Gimp 
>>>opens the picture (great). But if I change something on it and save the 
>>>picture, I can not laod the picture in Scribus again to see the result until 
>>>I closed Gimp. In my opinion this behaviour is not very comfortable and if 
>>>possible, I`d like to have it changed. It would be great, if Gimp is only 
>>>started ones and can remain open, so that for every new picture just a new 
>>>window in gimp is opened (as gimp normaly does) - so I save some time, 
>>>because gimp doesn`t have to start up again for every picture.
>>>
>>
>>I know the behaviour, this can't be solved in an easy way. Scribus
>>must detect changes and wait until the gimp terminate or the file
>>was modified. If your gimp is allready open it will be nice to call
>>remote-gimp (if installed) instead of gimp and you will have more
>>possibly more pictures oppened within the same gimp session. If you
>>save the file under and other name Scribus will never detect that
>>you wan't to continue the work you habe previously done, this will
>>not be easy because scribus wan't to wait up to the notification
>>of a change or termination of gimp. For the first release of this
>>feature we have not solved all possible problems.
>>
>>Jean-Jacques
>>
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