[Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

[Anoko <forums gimpusers com>]

> 2012/8/6 Anoko <forums gimpusers com>:

> > I've seen the new "you have to use export" messagebox about 20 times now, very annoying ;-). Why is it not 
> > OK to allow saving to e.g. png (especially when not using layers!), but keep the export function ALSO as 
> > it is? That way, everyone will be happy I think?

> Is it soooooooooo difficult to change one's habits a little, and to
> learn simple shortcuts? Ctrl-E or Shift-Ctrl-E to export the image to
> any format you wish, Ctrl-W Alt-W to close the image without saving
> it. Seeing a warning message 20 times was clearly enough for teaching
> me that I should use Ctrl-E instead of Ctrl-S.

Well habbits or not, I still wonder why it is explicitly disallowed to save as something other than xcf. As I 
said, allowing that+keeping the export option makes all users happy. Now, a way that apparently some part of 
the users like and some don't is forced to all, while it is not necessary to force it.

GIMP is not the only program I use, so yeah I keep pressing CTRL+S thinking that should save whatever I'm 
editting to whatever file extension I gave it, just like in Inkscape, Libreoffice, KDevelop, etc. To me, 
"exporting" to a png does not feel like exporting at all. If the original image is something bitmappy without 
layers, there is no loss, and I use GIMP mostly for that. If it did have layers, GIMP would already warn. I 
don't use GIMP often enough to get used to learn the fact that it's the only program I have where CTRL+S does 
not save, but rather wants me to make a temporary projectfile. 

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