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

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

On 07/19/13 19:13, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote:
>
> > No, this is not an improvement. More developer snobbery, thinking they know
> > more than the average user.
>
> Actually, it's the job of developers to know a lot about things like
> workflows, digital imaging and suchlike. It just so happens the mythic
> "average user" doesn't know a lot about all those things.

No, you're right about that. They don't, and shouldn't be forced into 
them, especially when the old workflow was just fine.

> In my experience any attempt to teach users good practices will be met
> by a few snobbery accusations. Today it's you who issues them.
> Tomorrow it will be someone else.

It's not your job to teach us anything.

> The "average user" neither needs nor wants to understand that the
> direct implementation of the "do as I say, or else you are a snob who
> doesn't listen to users" rule leads to inconsistent, cluttered,
> unusable interfaces. I don't blame you for not understanding that.
> Obviously you can't know everything.

I understand that concept very well, what happened here though - while 
maybe an improvement for the professional - is a huge change in the 
workflow of many, many other users, all of which whom are being ignored 
or told to shut up and go away.

> But here's an idea. If using GIMP makes you sulking and soar all the
> time (and this is not the first time you are complaining about a
> specific change), perhaps it's time for you to think why you want to
> invest your time into this unhealthy "relationship"?

No, it's not. I don't like the single-window mode but at least I can 
change that permanently through some options. This new export/save 
workflow isn't really all that helpful (though it's not terrible, it's 
completely foreign to many long-time users, as people keep posting about 
it are saying).

I've already invested many years into using The GIMP, my question to you 
is why should I learn something else? Especially when nothing else 
really fits my needs (which go beyond simple corrections to digital 
camera photos) or particular work environment. What I - and many others 
who are complaining about this change - really want is a consistently 
working program where at the very least such a major change has - at 
least temporarily at the very least - an option to revert to the more 
familiar and desired behavior. Why is that so hard to understand?

--
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Joseph A Nagy Jr
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