Re: [Gimp-gui] Improving Export

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-10-12 16:57, Jehan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some may have heard that I have been working on improving Export
> lately
> (http://girinstud.io/news/2015/09/improving-the-export-process-in-gimp/),
> and for the ones who met me in LGM, you may even have known that I
> have been thinking about this topic for more than a year.
>
> The basic idea is that our current export dialog is too basic, because
> it has been sharing the same code logics as "save" for too long. But
> while you *save* a work in progress without any loss in higher
> possible quality, you actually *export* a "snapshot" of this work for
> various different reasons (high quality print, small file for the
> web…). The export dialog should show its specificities.
>
> So now we have 2 concepts of Save != Export since GIMP 2.8, result of
> the Save + Export spec
> (http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Save_%2B_export_specification). And
> since my commits about a month ago, we have finally separate code
> bases for these, allowing us to go further.
>
> I'm thinking that we could include optional modifications of the
> exported images (like resolution, color profile changes, etc.), and
> also that we could have the filetype-specific options in the export
> dialog itself, instead of being managed by the plugins (this of course
> implies an API change for GIMP 3.0 for instance).
>
> The workgroup wiki page:
> http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Export_dialog_workgroup

After some discussion on IRC, I updated the wiki page with the various 
ideas, and a wireframe by pippin. Feel free to comment! :-)

Jehan

> What are your thoughts?
>
> Jehan