Re: [Gimp-user] Save Export Complaints

[Ken Warner <kwarner000 verizon net>]

Should GIMP be dumbed down for people who are too stupid to save their work?

As said before, there are many different ways to implement the New; Open; Save; Save As...; sequence so that 
all users can feel comfortable with the interaction and all users can be given the maximum security for their 
work.

It's just stubbornness on the part of a few that prevents that compromise.

On 9/12/2012 9:02 AM, Ryan Stark wrote:
> "It's not logical to save a whole session if all one does is touch up
> a jpeg file."
>
> No, so then the logical thing is to export. Why is this such a
> problem? Export is separated from save dialog to make it difficult to
> accidentally lose you data. If you accidentally save to xcf rather
> than export then no problem. If you do the opposite then it's possible
> disaster. There have been a few occasions in the earlier Gimp where
> I've exported when I should have saved. Not even a total accident in
> some cases. I just though the editing was done whereas the new way
> tends to remind me to keep the xcf.
>
> For very casual users, this may not be understood but the new way of
> doing it is more friendly to people who understand it. It's not
> difficult to deal with. Should Gimp be dumbed right down to cater for
> people who don't understand things or should Gimp do things the right
> way? Sometimes free software developers can make bad choices, that's
> true, but sometimes (as in this case) they don't pander to what many
> users want, instead they make the right change for the better and I
> believe that most Gimp users will in fact realize that this simple
> change is better.
>
>
> On 12 September 2012 16:37, Ken Warner<kwarner000 verizon net>  wrote:
> > It's not logical to save a whole session if all one does is touch up a jpeg
> > file.
> >
> > On the other hand, for people who do complicated image building over many
> > sessions, it makes sense to save a project and in that case it would be
> > logical to have an option that allows gimp to open the previous project on
> > restart.  That would prevent work loss.
> >
> >
> > On 9/12/2012 3:30 AM, Ryan Stark wrote:
> > > I see lots of complaints about the Gimp save and export. I've been
> > > using Gimp for ages with this feature. It is entirely logical and I
> > > don't understand the complaining.
> > >
> > > In a DAW (digital audio workstation application) you save the whole
> > > project as a session. You export the final file as mixdown in MP3 or
> > > whatever other format and you can import audio files into the project.
> > > It's similar logic in Gimp and makes total sense. Lots of apps work
> > > with this kind of method even when not as crucial as it is with DAW
> > > software.
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