Re: [Gimp-developer] Default file name for file-export action

[peter sikking <peter mmiworks net>]

Jehan wrote:

> Actually Mitch, our maintainer proposed something similar (see
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712194).
> So we could have a default of IMG_38210-1.jpg for instance.

please don’t.

there is two reasons that I am against tampering with this:

1) when using Export As... (new label), there are 3 things that
can be changed:

the location (say, directory), the name, the file type (extension)

2 out of 3 times, the name does not need changing.

2) the same ‘danger’ exists for Save As... but I think
we all manage quite well with that one.


> > Yes yes, I know that I'm not the target user and I probably will have to end
> > up using something like darktable or similar (even if I prefer geeqie for
> > browsing, directories for organizing and gimp for editing) but I want to

[snip]

> So you see! You are the target user! ;-)

no that is not what we are doing with this. it does not mean
that the non-savers are target users now.

what we are doing is a renewed effort to take all the
friction out of the non-saving paths for as much as we
can (without throwing away the clear separation principle),
for the benefit of all users.

    --ps

        founder + principal interaction architect
            man + machine interface works

        http://blog.mmiworks.net: on interaction architecture