Re: [Gimp-gui] Auto-generated tags for brushes

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 06/03/2018 02:47 AM, Michal Vašut wrote:
> It would ve nice to specify those (or asset specific) metadata also for
> another assets (plugins, gradients, fonts, ...). I hope devs are planing to
> make some asset manager and now is the time (or will be after stabilizing
> 2.10) to do so.

Hi Michal and All,

Do GIMP plug-ins currently have any associated user-accessible metadata? 
Looking at a couple of sample code files, author names and copyrights 
seem to be put in the code file, but not in a way that's accessible 
through the user interface.

I'm guessing that plug-ins, and assets such as gradients, color 
palettes, dynamics, etc, all could have user-added metadata added - 
"could have" meaning it seems possible to write code to add 
user-generated tags and things like author name, copyright, source url, 
etc, simply because the code for these things is GIMP code.

Are fonts the sort of thing to which users could directly add metadata? 
I'm guessing not, as GIMP code doesn't make fonts, rather only uses 
fonts supplied elsewhere. I'm guessing people that have many, many fonts 
installed on their system probably use some sort of font management 
that's not part of GIMP?

Best,
Elle