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

[Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>]

On 08/10/2013 03:37 PM, Richard Gitschlag wrote:


> I can agree with you here.
>
> If:
> - No changes have been made since the last export command, and:
> - The current image has no XCF file associated with it
>
> Then IMHO this is a scenario where suppressing the "Save changes?" prompt can be quite useful for the user, 
> because in this context the exported file IS what they want 'saved' to disk.

On the contrary, this is the dangerous situation...
- load file
- create complicated selection/path to update part of the image
- update that part
- export image
- quit (and throw the selection away...).

IMHO the only safe case is when the image has one singe layer without 
mask, no channels, no paths, no selections.

> GIMP constantly asking the user to "Save changes?" in a non-XCF workflow can make the user ignore it out of 
> habit (i.e. crying wolf), which is a dangerous behavior to have.
>
> On a side note, I would love to see an option for rescaling the image at export time (like with Inkscape's 
> Export).  I have a 150dpi scanned drawing with an XCF copy behind it, but when I want to export a 
> Web-resolution (60-90 dpi) JPG of it, manually rescaling the image means I run the risk of 'ruining' my 
> high-resolution workfile because it counts as a change to the image.  (This actually happened just the other 
> day, fortunately I wasn't closing GIMP at the time so I could merely Undo the changes and then save it at the 
> proper resolution.)

This is something I can relate to... but then after downscaling a little 
bit of re-sharpening is often useful, so your save dialog would get 
complicated. The good solution is to work from a copy "Image/Duplicate" 
or Ctrl-D.