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> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:04:31 -0400
> From: jay JaySmith com > To: gimp-developer-list gnome org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Bring back normal handling of other file formats > > People seem to learn best from adversity. If you corrupt your own image > file and did not make a pre-editing backup copy, you just might learn > something. However, if that same user is "protected" from doing > something stupid, then the user will learn nothing. "Once bitten, twice shy." Or as I like to say to myself, the smarter the technology the dumber the user. It also relates to my complaint of why the "Export [filename]" command should be separate from the "Overwrite [filename]" command. One of the responses I got (on the bugtracker, in fact) was "accidental overwrites are bad" -- why is that? If you were working on an XCF file and make a significant, possibly destructive change (like changing to indexed-color mode), there is no mechanism to "protect" you from accidentally selecting Save if you really meant Save As, and this is not considered a problem. So why is the equivalent scenario in the import/export case suddenly a problem? -- Stratadrake strata_ranger hotmail com -------------------- Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. |