Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior

[Johannes <anonforum gmx org>]

Am 17.07.2012 22:08, schrieb isabel brison:
> I rather like it actually...
>
> I do GIMP workshops for (mainly) old ladies who don't know the first
> thing about computers, but enjoy themselves doing silly photomontages
> and messing around with pictures of their grandchildren. They used to
> regularly lose their only original versions of pics through not knowing
> the difference between "save" and "save as" (and also not knowing the
> meaning of "backup").
> Now I can relax because this "export" business has created a safeguard
> against that sort of thing, though I hate to think what will happen if
> my old ladies (being deviously expert at messing things up) discover the
> "overwrite" command.


Glad to read this.

But I guess the old ladies wouldn't find the opt-out switch for this
behavior in the GIMP preferences, if there was any. So you could still
be relaxed and happy.

:-)


-- 
Johannes