Comment 5 for bug 280343

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Paulo J. S. Silva <email address hidden>wrote:

> So maybe, in the future we can add a feature that deletes the files from
> the equations that are no longer present when a page is saved (or
> erased). This should not be hard to do. Consider this a improvement
> request, not a bug report.
>

Sure, this is something to look into. Not only for equations, same would
apply for images. Ideally you want to clean them up after they are deleted
in the page, make a copy when the text including the image is copied to
another page, etc.

Problem I have with implementing that directly is that I need a way to check
if the same image is used by other pages as well. That is something I can
fix in the python port by indexing all relations.

> I have seen that you are porting zim to Python. Once the port is working
> I may try to add this functionality. It would be fun to do. I can
> program in Python, but I know very little Perl. Zim is a very nice
> program, I would de delighted to be able to contribute a little to it.
>

Port is coming along, hope to be able to go to beta soon, but still need to
implement the equation editor for that port - may do that later this week.

Regards,

Jaap