Re: [Gimp-user] Change the default Save extension

[maderios <maderios gmail com>]

On 04/23/2013 05:59 PM, Richard Gitschlag wrote:
>  > From: pat mysterywriter gmail com
>  > Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:40:23 -0400
>  > To: gimp-user-list gnome org
>  > Subject: [Gimp-user] Change the default Save extension
>  >
>  > Is there any way to change the format that's the default save. I don't
>  > use .xcf and prefer to use png or jpg. Why do I have to export them
>  > instead of simply save? Why did they change it in this version? It's
>  > annoying.
>  >
>  > Pat Brown
>  >
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> The reason is because a lot of other people use GIMP to work on
> complicated digital art which requires keeping a file containing
> multiple layers, and some of those people lost valuable project time and
> effort by saving to the wrong file format before quitting GIMP.  (It's
> not the 'saving' part that was necessarily the problem, but the
> 'quitting' part).
>
> I agree the change may be difficult to get used to and it possibly was
> not implemented or handled as well as it could be, but the new behavior
> is also a standard design paradigm so for now your choices really do
> boil down to adjusting to the new behavior or moving on to something
> else (I hear there's an alternate GIMP fork which restores the old
> behavior).
Hi
Lot of people  don't "use GIMP to work on complicated digital art".
Example : my wife is a teacher, and like most teachers, she just need to 
resize, change tone, etc... .png or .jpeg pictures, never .xcf.
This behavior is annoying because many people think that gimp is 
unusable and therefore install photoshop. This is not a good 
advertisement for the free software.
There's no alternate GIMP fork which restores the normal behavior.
I'm getting tired of seeing the word "troll" whenever someone criticizes 
Gimp
Greetings

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Maderios
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