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

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:07:41PM +0200, Alexia Death wrote:
> > This is analogous to saying "don't use emacs just to do a quick edit;
> > use vi for that".  Different tools have different interfaces, and I
> > don't want to learn two different interfaces to edit images just because
> > I want to "quick and dirty".
> I take beef with this comparsion. its more like comparing GIMP and PS.
> fair compare would be nano vs emacs. And if its available, I use nano
> to edit a single line in a small conf file. If I want syntax higlight
> and all the fancyness of emacs, I fire it up. And I do not complayn
> that I have to press a few more keys to save and exit than in nano if
> I do.

To run with this analogy: the problem is when you *frequently* need
something that is more than nano provides. In the specific case of Gimp, I
don't think there's anything else that offers layers, curves, and a healing
brush. I use those things all the time in quick JPEG editing. (The layers
only temporarily, of course -- I'll be looking forward to adjustment layers
when that work is done.)

If we had a whole toolbox of photo editing tools at our disposal in Linux,
I'd be less sad. 


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Matthew Miller           mattdm mattdm org          <http://mattdm.org/>