Re: [Gimp-user] A sad case of regression ?

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Renaud  OLGIATI wrote:

> > > how about offering the user an export / save choice in the Preferences dialogues ?
>
> > As already discussed before, the answer is 'no'.
>
> Why not ?
>
> Do I sense here a case of the Microsoft delusion ? ("We are Gimp of Borg, resistance is futile...")

Sorry, but I'm not in a position to explain your senses. There are
professionals that do that kind of job for a wide range of fee, as I'm
told.

There reason the team doesn't provide a setting for that is because
it's a behaviour change. Which is widely regarded by usability
engineers as a sure pathway to hell.

> PS Could anyone kindly point me in the direction of a repository for a Debian amd64 gimp 2.6.12 deb file ?

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gimp

Alexandre Prokoudine
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