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

[John Meyer <johnmeyer pueblocomputing com>]

On 8/10/2013 10:50 AM, maderios wrote:
> On 08/09/2013 03:07 PM, s.kortenweg wrote:
> > When i started 50 years ago in the early days of IT as prof was me told
> > that there are 2 rules for program developers  : first keep it simple
> > and second the user must be happy with the results of your work.
> > In the endless discussion of export vs. Save i believe that the second
> > rule is violated.
> Hi
> The Gimp developers  approach  is unfortunately very "closed". They do 
> not care about the users and they believe they have the truth.... But 
> a developer is mainly a developer, not a professional image editing.
> You can compare with other software development, like  new 
> Enlightenment (E17 and E18).
> It's completely different. The developers and  the main developer 
> (Rasterman) listen to users reviews and they use these criticisms to 
> improve the program.
> http://www.enlightenment.org/
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=enlightenment-users 
>
> Greetings


if they're so good, go and use them, then.  Or take a few classes on 
programming and fork the code, as I suggested earlier.

Seriously, nothing's wrong with criticism of a feature you like or don't 
like as a user as long as:

1.  You explain that as a user
2.  You realize that you may be in the minority there.
3.  If you've said you're not a developer then keep your opinions about 
what is and is not simple for a developer to maintain to yourself until 
you've developed a program.


And I don't know about Enlightenment, but I'm assuming that the main 
developer isn't trying to please everybody.  Listen to everybody, fine.  
But pleasing everybody is the same as pleasing nobody.