I now agree with Martin... a composition should not be 'saved-as' jpeg or png... i take back my vote...
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Martin Nordholts <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/1/4 Josiah Jack <[email protected]>: > > Hello other gimpers! > > > > Been trying out one of the latest GIMP releases in prep for the new 2.8 > that > > I heard is coming out, and I've found a couple things that I dislike and > > hope will be changed/fixed. > > > > 1.) Please recombine the Save As, and Export dialogues. I keep going to > > Save As and it keeps telling me that it can only save as xcf, not jpg, > tga, > > etc. This is incredibly annoying, especially since I only rarely use xcf > > file format! Also, if these are kept as separate save dialogues then it > > will probably be considered as below industry standards considering how > > almost all applications save and export(just another word for save) from > a > > single save as dialogue. > > Hi! > > If you rarely use the XCF format you are not part of the target user > group. The separation of save and export is for users that do complex > compositions in XCF and export every now and then. For those users, > the way it works now makes sense. That an image previously was > considered to be "saved" as PNG was misleading, inaccurate and > confusing. No non-trivial composition has ever been "saved" in a PNG > file. Not to mention the metric tonne of popup dialogs you had to wade > through to "save" in PNG. > > > > 2.) Clicking the close button to close the application doesn't close the > > application, it closes the currently open image (in Single Window > Mode). I > > had to click it over 4 times because of all the images I had open. This > is > > definitely a bug in my opinion. There should be a single dialogue that > > lists the currently open images and asks to save them, has > individual save > > buttons, and, most importantly, has some sort of a "Close without Saving > > Any" button. > > We probably should, yes. But that has to wait until after we release > 2.8. The last stable release was 4 (yes four!) years ago. That's an > eternity and we need to learn how to make frequent releases. The first > step is to actually release 2.8 first and we can only afford to be > delayed by critical issues. > > / Martin > > > -- > > My GIMP Blog: > http://www.chromecode.com/ > "Single-window mode feature complete" > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > -- * * *Regards, * *Srihari Sriraman *
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