Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

[Alexia Death <alexiadeath gmail com>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org> wrote:
> Some options have high cost and only benefit an obscure case. In *this*
> case, the cost is relatively small (one option which is a refinement of an
> option that's always been there) and the *reward for the project* is high.

The issue is conceptual. You do not need to fire up the giant machine
that is gimp to this little thing... GIMP is not a tool for this
usecase. It is capable of doing it, but it will not be perfectly
convenient. You can use a scalpel to cut bread. It will do the job,
but it would be done better and faster with a bread knife. However you
would not want this person cutting into your body with a breadknife,
simply because it's unsafe. You try to make GIMP into a breadknife so
you can more comfortably cut bread where as its intended purpose is to
be a scalpel, a tool for thins where unsafe operations are a no-go....

--Alexia