Re: [Gimp-developer] Bring back normal handling of other file formats

[Tobias Oelgarte <tobias oelgarte googlemail com>]

Am 20.06.2012 23:13, schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>
> > If they don't, their bad fortune.  Making a common operation less
> > convenient for everyone because some user may not realize what's going
> > on -- and no way to turn off the inconvenience -- is unnecessarily
> > paternalistic, IMHO.
> Well, if you don't read warnings in this very list about
> http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Vision_briefing, it's your bad fortune
> :)
>
> It's been mentioned a thousand times that it's not just about making
> mistakes while saving, that there's also such a thing as creating
> complex images from scratch being the focus.
>
> Alexandre Prokoudine
> http://libregraphicsworld.org
> _______________________________________________
> gimp-developer-list mailing list
> gimp-developer-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
> .
All i would ask for is that the "Save Image" Dialog will always default 
to *.xcf, but still would provide some quick way to save (export) to 
another format at choice. At the moment i often find myself (purely out 
of habit, which isn't only Gimps "fault") in the position that i 
actually wanted to save in another format. Now i have to close the 
dialog and to open the export dialog. This seams a little bit 
overcomplicated (throw away of time).

Don't get me wrong. I like the concept, but sometimes i want to go 
against such concepts if they remove a certain degree of freedom. In 
this case it doesn't make much sense to me to give the user not the 
option to override the default. Either by adding the desired extension 
or by pressing a button like "export instead of saving" inside the same 
dialog.

Tobias Oelgarte