[Gimp-user] A sad case of regression ?

[Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud olgiati-in-paraguay org>]

Although I have been using GIMP for fourteen years, since release 1.0, I am new to 2.8.

I have noticed a change in the behaviour of the load/save process which seems to me to be a bad regression, 
unless it can be bypassed by a change in the configuration.

In the past, I would open, say, a .jpeg file, work on it, and when the time came to Save, it would by default 
be saved in the file format of the original file.

Now, Save (and Save As) only offers me .xcf (and archived .xcf), if I want to save in the original file 
format I have to go through Export, and then, to add insult to injury, GIMP complains when I close the 
picture that it has not been saved ! All this seems to me not only a stupid complication, but also deeply 
counter-intuitive.

Questions: 

- Can this behaviour be changed in the configuration of GIMP ?

- If not, what is the latest release of GIMP that behaved in the old (and intuitive) way, so I can go back to 
that version ?
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.

PS Why do the developpers think we all want to use the .xcf format ?
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