Re: [Gimp-user] Save v Export behaviour

[Brendan Scott <disposableemail apps opensourcelaw biz>]

On 12/04/2013 06:42 PM, Wolfgang Hugemann wrote:
> > The save/export UI may need more thought.
>
> As a Windows user, I am also annoyed by Gimp's behaviour, it's
> strange. The default behaviour of any Windows program is to save a
> document in the format it was opened in or possibly suggest you to
> convert it to a more suitable one, i.e. programs behave the other
> round, compared to Gimp. So maybe the expected behaviour also depends
> on the OS you use.
>
> But even under Windows, nobody would expect that a dedicted export
> routine would clean the dirty flag.

1. I'm not hung up on the dirty flag, just trying to brainstorm.

2. What I was proposing was a picture tweaking/editing mode in which that occurred. Not as a default 
behaviour of export.  If I was in my normal usage mode the current implementation suits me fine (default to 
xcf and no dirty flag reset on export).