Re: [Gimp-user] export vs save

[Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer fsfe org>]

Burlen Loring <bloring lbl gov> writes:

> I'm sure the author(s) feels that it's the best thing since sliced
> bread, however, differentiating between save and export in newer gimp
> is a ridiculous waste of time. it's so annoying and in efficient that
> I feel the need to chime in against it and strongly hope  this change
> will be reversed in a future release.

The GIMP developers have stated that they are not reverting the change.
Your options are:

1) learn the new way

2) use this plugin which implements the old way within GIMP:
   http://www.shallowsky.com/software/gimp-save/

3) use the GIMP fork GIMB which reverts the change completely:
   https://github.com/mardy/gimb



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