Re: [Gimp-gui] Splash screen + default export file type

[marty <marty heavyreckoning com>]

On 12/20/2017 07:05 AM, Jehan wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On 2017-12-20 11:41, marty wrote:
> > lol. I love open source development, but sometimes it is humorous the
> > rabbit holes it goes down.  Of all the tweaks I'd like to see to GIMP
> > gui, the splash screen is probably the last thing on the list that
> > matters to me and completely unrelated to actually using GIMP.
> >  First thing on my list?
>
> This is a public mailing list, which means that *anyone* can write 
> *anything* here. If someone makes an email about the splash screen, it 
> does not mean that it is the "first thing" on anyone's list (not even 
> the poster as far as I know; one can make an email on something which 
> is not own's higher priority!), and especially it does not mean that 
> it is the first thing on developer's list. ;-)
Understood, I just thought it was funny that there is hardly any traffic 
on this list other than about the gui splash lately.  It has been kind 
of quiet overall really.  Not complaining, just being light.

> > Making the "export / export as" file type
> > sticky to whatever one chose last, or some mechanism that allows some
> > sense continuity of export file type during a workflow across several
> > imported images.  At least a hot key to select previously used type.
> > All the fiddly clicking with the mouse to select the same file type
> > one selected 5 minutes ago is tedious.
>
> I think there is a bug report about this. It's not as simple as 
> remembering the last export file type, since some other people don't 
> want the last format to be remembered (for instance, you export 99% as 
> JPEG, but just this one time, you need to export a TIFF. The next time 
> you open an image, you will still want to see JPEG as default again 
> and not TIFF).
The way I pictured it, the "sticky" wouldn't be overrideable, it would 
just replace the .png which is the current default.  So for that one 
time one wanted something other than the sticky, one would simply do 
what we are already doing, select another.  So I hope that clarifies; 
I'm not talking about automatically selecting, just having the default 
for selection be sticky.

> But you are definitely right that this can be improved (as many 
> things!). Maybe this could be a preference settings where you can 
> choose your default export format (among the whole list of formats or 
> set as "last export format").
>
> I guess I should look into this.
Ok, I just sent $25 to gimp.gnome.org (my paypal email is diff from one 
I'm sending from, but it is still 'marty@...').  That is all I can 
really afford right now, but Merry Christmas and thanks for all the hard 
work.  I understand that doing little feature streamlining stuff isn't 
as interesting as big new functionality, but for the person working 
daily with GIMP the little things make a big diff.

Rgds,
Marty