Re: [Gimp-gui] Default export format usability

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 19/02/17 23:07, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> 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.

The behavior I suggest is exactly the one used for other Gimp settings. 
Either you start with fixed settings that you saved once,
or you start with the settings at the end of your previous session.

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

I never said you would use both at thesame time... Like with tools 
options its either/or.
> 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.

For the sake of consistency with tools settings, if you start using an 
extension that isn't the default during a session, then this extension 
becomes the default for the current session.  Then on your next Gimp 
session either it will have been reset to your usual default (fixed 
setting) or it ill be the starting default (settings saved at the end of 
the session).