Description file issues

[jahrin]

Hello, the description feature is very important to me.

- XnView uses inconsistent files for descriptions depending on the OS. In windows it uses descript.ion like it should, but the linux version uses ".description" instead. I know that this makes it hidden, but it is more important to have descriptions than for the file to be hidden. This effectively making descriptions incompatible between OSes and with every other program that uses descript.ion, with no great benefit in return.

- It would be nice if XnView on Windows didn't automatically assume I wanted it to recreate my entire descript.ion every time it writes to it, using XnView's non-standard format of always quoting the filename. This issue has also been mentioned in this thread. XnView should follow the same format used by ACDSee, NewsbinPro, 4DOS, Amiga, Total Commander, and other software since the format originated back in the BBS days. Not doing it this way makes it incompatible with some software, again with no benefit in return.

Looking through the forums, I was seeing a lot of issues with the image descriptions. The ones that were causing lost descriptions during file manipulation were kind of scary. I have thousands of files with descriptions, so my description data is more important than which viewer program I use, so I hope these are cleared up (on linux and windows).

I haven't tested for lost descriptions extensively yet, but I have noticed these two bugs in the Linux version that do not exist in Windows: If I rename a file, it loses its description. Also, if I copy and paste a file, the pasted file will not have the proper description from the source file.