Re: [Gimp-developer] non-destructive editing and adjustment layers

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 18:31 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Jon Nordby wrote:
>
> > > By the time GIMP 2.10 is out, there will be no such plugins in GIMP,
> > > so what you are suggesting simply doesn't make much sense :)
> >
> > What about all the plugins using the legacy APIs found at registry.gimp.org
> > and other places?
>
> They will still look and behave differently :)
>
> Personally, I think that if someone has the time to implement a
> "system-wide" mechanism to detect what kind of plug-in was called, and
> warn about upcoming loss of data, that would be quite OK :)  But
> _maybe_ this shouldn't be top priority for the time being.

That mechanism does exist, we just need to decide whether we want
to warn if such a plug-in used.

--Mitch