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

[Graeme Gill <graeme2 argyllcms com>]

Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> It must be wonderful to live in a world where people work only on
> images they created themselves :)

Relevance ? (I can't see any).

> Um. Are you suggesting that GIMP should somehow begin to view files
> differently as soon as some unsupported (re original file) feature
> gets added? Like "Uh, oh, you added a layer, and PNG doesn't support
> layers, so let's treat this as XCF after all"? :)

Such a thing comes without any further effort. The current state of
the image either contains layers or it doesn't. It's simple for
the PNG image code to check if there are layers, and return
a status "can't save all of the current image info."

There are a variety of UI ways of handling this, from
not offering any formats that will loose information to
save to, to the simple "do you want to collapse into PNG format" etc.

But all this is very elementary. I don't understand why
you raise it as being any sort sort of problem.

Graeme Gill.