Andrew Chadwick

@0ion9 uncertain what you mean. On each new painting layer? Or just if you try to edit a completely blank painting layer in an external app? I was considering changing...

@snan Have a look at https://docs.python.org/2/library/base64.html - there's a standard module that does the encoding. Maybe something like ``` >>> import base64 >>> "data:text/plain;base64," + base64.b64encode("hello\nworld") 'data:text/plain;base64,aGVsbG8Kd29ybGQ=' ``` Silly example,...

Those are backup files, made for safety when there's a pre-existng file having the same name. Nobody has complained about it till now :smile: See #203 for earlier discussion. You're...

It's weird behaviour, so it should be documented. Let's call them "backup copies made when overwriting files" in the docs, and explain that it means a different thing to the...

I documented the weird behaviour: https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/wiki/v1.2-Backup-Files-and-Autosaves Now bumping this to a post-1.2 task for adding a user-facing toggle for this behaviour.

Entry-level task for someone wanting to learn how to work with our prefs dialog. But post-1.2 still since it needs new strings.

### Good new starter task This is a moderately time-consuming addition of a switch into the preferences window that would improve how MyPaint saves files quite a lot. It would...

A little update for first-timers wanting to take this on. With the latest git master, you need to install [libmypaint](https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint)'s development headers separately before MyPaint will build. To make things...

@mauriciv Sorry for taking my time to respond! Are you still interested in taking this issue on?

@KyleRConway Thanks for the interest! Yes, the docs got consolidated since this issue started. Sorry about that. Your best bet is to start at the current [README](https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/blob/922f73dfe6aeb9ebb1f9aa497a2d2de04eff9720/README.md). The [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/blob/922f73dfe6aeb9ebb1f9aa497a2d2de04eff9720/CONTRIBUTING.md)...