Re: [Gimp-gui] Default export format usability

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Ofnuts wrote:

> > Having that setting would be an overkill, IMO. Simply remembering the
> > last exporting file format across sessions would do the trick.
> >
> > If all you do is JPEG, you change the file format once, and it works
> > _exactly_ as if there was such setting.
> >
> > If you switch between e.g. PNG, JPEG, and PSD, you probably export
> > multiple files in the same file format, so having a default one would
> > most likely get in your way.
>
> IMHO both behaviors make sense. This is like defaults for tools, where Gimp
> has either "Save tool options on exit" or "Save tools options now!". This
> could include the default export file type.

Um, no :) I'm afraid defaults and saving for the next session are
mutually exclusive. Here is why.

If GIMP remembers the last used export file format anyway, what would
having a default for exporting actually _do_?

If your default is JPEG and you always/mostly export to JPEG anyway,
then you don't need this setting at all.

If your default is JPEG and the last time you exported to TIFF, what
would take precedence on a new session? Defaults? Then what is the
point of remembering last used format across sessions? Last used file
format? Then what is the point of having defaults? GIMP cannot know
that the user is done exporting TIFF files.

Alex