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

["Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1978 gmail com>]

On 07/19/13 16:10, scl wrote:
> On 19.07.13 at 9:21 PM Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI:
> > Completely useless for the vast majority who only want to quickly open
> > a camera-produced .jpeg, rotate, crop and rescale it, and never work
> > on it again.
>
> So, then GIMP is perhaps not the right choice for your workflow.
> It's like buying a big road cruiser and then complaining that it
> doesn't fit into a narrow parking bay. So, obviously,
> the cruiser must be a bad car ;-)

Except GIMP was fine with that until the developers recently changed it. 
It's like trying to tell people that you removed the simple ignition 
system and replaced it with a slightly more complex (and possibly 
superior) ignition system that significantly deviated from the expected 
norms and that if they didn't like it, it was their fault because their 
expectations were wrong in the first place even though for the previous 
15 years those expectations were happily catered to.

> A quick and easy software to edit your camera images might be a better
> choice for the use cases you mentioned. For instance think of the
> accompaniment software that is shipped with your camera, image
> viewers, digikam, Xnview, iPhoto, Picasa etc.
> You can anyway use GIMP for more complex image editing tasks, like
> retouching, photomontages or effects.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Sven

So is GIMP no only for those professionals who do more then a quick 
edit? If so, that is mighty snobbish (though it fits in with the general 
developer snobbery that has been permeating the F/OSS culture for the 
past few years).

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Joseph A Nagy Jr
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