Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp 2.8.0 - flawed export/overwrite behavior [was: Saving in .jpg or .png hmmmmm]

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu gmail com>]

On 18/05/2012, Richard Gitschlag <strata_ranger hotmail com> wrote:
>
> Going to split this because it really NEEDS some wider discussion.  There's
> no nice way of phrasing it - in the current GIMP this distinction is a total
> snafu.
>
>> To: gimp-developer-list gnome org
>> From: grosberg michael gmail com
>> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 06:45:22 +0000
>> Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp 2.8.0 - Saving in .jpg or .png hmmmmm
>>
>> Here's the problem - overwrite only works once. Then it becomes export.
>> And you can't assign the same keyboard shortcut to both.

>> Michael Natterer 2012-05-05 17:05:25 UTC
>> There is a bug in 2.8 that keeps Ctrl+E invokable even if the menu
>> entry is hidden. I fixed that in git, it will be in 2.8.1.
>
> Unfortunately this will only exacerbate the problem -- when all you need to
> do is a quick start-GIMP/import-file/minor-edit/overwrite/exit-GIMP job,
> this means that your Ctrl+E will either work only once per image session (if
> assigned to "file-overwrite") or not at all (if assigned to "file-export").
> In order to get both sides you'd need a third shortcut, say, Ctrl+Alt+E,
> assigned to the third command.

I didn't read the huge paragraph I snipped, but I think you completely
misunderstood the reply to the bug. The bug is that ctrl-e doesn't
work in 2.8.0 when you import a file until you do 'export'. This is
fixed in 2.8.1, you can now always press ctrl-e to export a file. If
it is imported, it will prompt for a new name, if you already picked
an export name it will silently export to the same name again.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson