[Qgis-developer] Raster colours

[jjg]

Hi Etienne


Etienne Tourigny-3 wrote
> 
> In fact - I found that things that were missing:
> 1) a list of gradients and their variants (e.g. ColorBrewer)
> 2) names associated to the various directories/authors
> 3) metadata of your "Selections".
> 

1) the list of gradients is just the list of their file names, so no
    problem there. "Variants" is problematic, since who is to say
    what is a variant of what?  This is very subjective (and what
    actually is the point of it?)

2) The author of each gradient can be found from COPYING.xml.
    If you start from a path like a/b/c/d.svg then there will be 
    one COPYING.xml file corresponding to it, and it is in one of

    a/b/c/COPYING.xml
    a/b/COPYING.xml
    a/COPYING.xml

    i.e, a COPYING.xml applies to that directory and all subdirectories.

    I can see it might be useful to have a description for each 
    subdirectory.  Say
    - short name (same as directory name)
    - long name (essentialy the text in the directory link on parent
directory)
    - description (essentially the first sentence of the page text)
    so 
    "seq"
    "sequential"
    "Sequential colour schemes designed by Cynthia Brewer"
    This info in a file called DESC.xml in the directory cpt-city/cb/seq/

    I'm open to suggestions on this.

3) is a different matter altogether, some of these selections are updated 
    every day (most popular downloads etc), so I suggest we do the above
    first an learn the lesson before trying this ...

Jim



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