Re: [Gimp-developer] Bring back normal handling of other file formats

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) wrote:

> But I just had an idea (sorry if anybody already suggested it and I missed
> it): What if the "merely harmeless to downright offensive" popup saying that
> Save is for XCF offers an extra button labeled "export anyway" or something
> similar?

A universally accepted truth is that users don't read warnings. This
will surely freak out few geeks who do read warnings carefully and
recite them occasionally over a pint of beer in a pub, but mostly
people really try to make stupid dialogs go away ASAP.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org