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

[Robert Krawitz <rlk alum mit edu>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:42:05 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>
>>> This may change in future versions - where maybe you won't even have
>>> the choice not to save, because saving has become so cheap that it can
>>> be done any time, and the program just does it for you.
>>
>> This can become really annoying, really fast...
>>
>> Applications that helpfully save their constantly can cause a lot of
>> grief if I change something I really, really didn't want to change that
>> causes something very strange to happen.  Yes, I know about the undo
>> stack and all that, but...
>
> Are you familiar with the concept of saving history stack into project files?

I presume you mean appending journal entries to the file?  Yes, and
that's a lot safer than other ways of doing it.  But make sure that you
handle situations of high latency (NFS/Samba) and low disk space well.

Also, there needs to be a way to remove particular entries from the
project file.  Say I accidentally add a layer from a file that I
*really* don't want to be in there (a scan of my credit card, for
example).  I want to be able to completely purge it.
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