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

[Burnie West <west ieee org>]

On 07/19/2013 06:03 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote:
> It's not your job to teach us anything.
Very true. However, it is also not a developer's job to respond to every whim of 
every user. This is simply not possible.

When a specificworkflow structure proves unwieldy for reasons not necessarily 
understood by all users, itbecomes necessary to make revisions (perhaps in the 
user interface) to rectify this issue, even at the expense of losing (not 
"loosing", by the way) some users who are unwilling to adapt.

In the commercial world, losing customers is expensive. Yet the expense must be 
borne when such a problem is identified.

In the FOSS world, the cost appears as flame wars rather than dollars. In the 
FOSS world, the cost is borne in complaints, rather than dollars.

WIkipedia's solution to the flame war problem is to close all new edits. This 
unfortunately tends to limit productive discussion.

The GIMP developers  solution appears to be to respond with impatience to new 
objections to old concerns. This also, unfortunately, tends to limit productive 
discussion - particularly when concerns earlier addressed (ad nauseum, in this 
case) are repeated without reviewing previous discussions.