Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Export Properties Not Preserved

["Guillermo Espertino (Gez)" <gespertino gmail com>]

El 18/07/13 10:28, Jason Simanek escribió:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/18/2013 01:05 AM, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) wrote:> Just save a
> new default with the settings you want and it will be used
>  > next time you export.
>
> Well, now I feel dumb. Thanks Gez!
>
> This certainly fulfills my need, but I find it odd that the only way to
> alter that setting is from within the export/save dialog. But it's there
> at least.

No need to feel dumb. I guess it's true that those buttons are not in 
the first place one would look.
However, I think it's a smart place to put them: Usually you realize the 
default is not suitable for your needs while you're changing the output 
options over and over again (pretty much what happened to you), so being 
able to save a new default from those settings comes quite handy.

Apart from that, I think that having those options in the export dialog 
keeps us from having a too crowded preferences dialog, which is also a 
good thing.

In my oppinion, it's a reasonable compromise.

> I still think the "Save All Open Files" feature would be cool, though.

Indeed. But again, for avoiding menus unnecessarily long and 
overcrowded, that has to be implemented in a smart way.
Probably it could be an option for the "close all" dialog instead of an 
independent command in the file menu. And that would be only for saving, 
not exporting.
Opening several files and exporting/overwriting them all is probably too 
specific and should be implemented with a plugin, not to GIMP itself.

Batch processing and export aren't kind the things I'd do with GIMP 
(basically because it lacks the tools for that at the moment, I'd use 
Phatch or even darktable for things like that) so, until GIMP has a 
user-friendly macro system, I don't think batch exporting is essential.

I mean, GIMP seems to be more oriented to complex manipulations rather 
than taking several images and apply repetitive tasks to them, and I 
don't think it's wise to work on several complex manipulations 
simultaneously without saving, to make "save/export all" necessary :-)

Of course, this is just an oppinion and I'm not saying your workflow is 
wrong. Just I think that needing that feature is probably something 
constrained to a specific workflow.

Gez.