Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp - 2.8 Usability Drop

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:40 PM, drankinatty wrote:

>   The logical solution here is simple. Simply meet the needs of both those who like the old style dialogs 
> and those that like the new by providing the _option_ to select which type dialog behavior to use. The code 
> for each is already there, just make the behavior user selectable in the "Edit -> Preferences -> Interface" 
> dialog. (or where ever you see fit) a simple check box labeled as follows would suffice:
>
> [  ]  Use Gimp 2.6 File open/save Dialogs
>
>   There is no reason that cannot be done in Gimp-2.8.1. Problem solved.

No.

I'm sorry you had to write all of that for such a short answer, but if
you took time to study the history of criticism, you'd know that this
is not going to happen, and why.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org