Re: [Gimp-developer] request

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 06/23/17 14:14, Bert de Jong wrote:
> When saving a JPG, please warn if there is transparency.
> Currently GIMP saves such images without warnings and just uses the
> current background color.
> I think a lot of people do not use XCF and are used to saving
> transparency to PNG and GIF files.
>
> I think it's customary for GIMP to warn when operations initiated by
> the user will be performed slightly different than the user might
> expect.
> An example is when scaling indexed images.
> It then says: "Indexed color layers are always scaled without
> interpolation. The chosen interpolation type will affect channels and
> layer masks only."
>
> Thanks.
Given the number of times I've seen people complaining about the loss of 
transparency, that would be a good idea.


What Gimp could have is either a counter of the number of times a 
warning has been issued (and stop issuing it after a while) or a "Don't 
tell me again" checkbox.