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

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:17 AM, John Coppens <john jcoppens com> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2012 09:52:32 +0400
> Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com> wrote:
>
> > We don't know exactly what you do ing GIMP during those unsafe workflows.
>
> About 90% of the time I load PNGs or jpegs (100s of them), edit them,
> and save them back in the same format - I don't have any necessity for
> XCF in these cases.

Sorry but this is simply not verbose enough. How exactly do you edit
them? What kind of chnages do you apply? Tools and filters you use?

> > We don't know if the sequence of actions you do can only be performed in GIMP.
>
> I'm not sure what this question means.

The question should be understood literally :) Is GIMP the only tool
to get your job done?


> > We don't know if you need this unsafe workflow all the time or half the time.
>
> I'm not sure what's unsafe.

Losing multiple layers, masks, extra channels etc. is unsafe.

> Note that I haven't installed the new Gimp yet.

*sigh*

> It certainly is not intuitive.

*sigh*

I wish people used _experience_ for judging things.

Alas, the misconception of intuition isn't going away either.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org