I have long recognized that to be usable by young kids, xjig really needs a better user interface. So I wrote a launcher, xjig-menu to address the problem. It adds a file open dialog (via zentiy) and support for more file formats (via imagemagick).
Update
I have put this script in subversion and added a man page. Check it out:
$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-games/people/synrg/xjig
4 replies on “Launcher for xjig adds open dialog and file conversion”
Excellent!
In the past I wrote a script for Nautilus that added an option to the context menu, so we’d right click on a picture -> Script -> Jigsaw and it would convert the image to a gif and run xjig. It even supported selecting multiple images…
It received a high wife approval factor at the time. 🙂
Cool. I thought of doing something like that, but wanted to make a non-desktop-specific solution. Still, I’d like to see it if you’ve posted it somewhere.
Sorry, new to Linux, running Kubuntu. Tried to install xjig, but the only thing I can see is the sample picture, no menu so far. How do I accomplish this?
Thanks, Will
Will, my changes are still experimental and are not in the official package included in Kubuntu.
There is, at least for now, a copy of my modified, unffocial version of xjig here:
http://people.debian.org/~synrg/local/xjig_2.4-12_i386.deb
This may or may not work for your particular version of Kubuntu. It’s a matter of whether the dependencies can be satisfied within your distribution or not.