Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:45 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: > >>> I don't quite understand. What dialog is useless? >> "Export file..." dialog you get on saves to formats that are not xcf. It >> does ask in some formats for conversion options but I doubt many people >> have ever done anything else there than just clicked export. If someone >> wants to ie. flatten instead of merge they can do that beforehand. > > I don't quite follow that argument. The choices are important. Imagine > you are saving a multi-layered image to the GIF format. You get to > choose between saving an animation, saving a flattened or a merged > version. That choice is not trivial to avoid. > > Changing these things is not trivial. Both from the user interface point > of view (writing the spec) and from an implementation point of view. I > don't think we want to address this for 2.6. But we can very well try to > get it done for 2.8.
You are right... In case of gif it is not trivial and there are probably many other nontrivial cases. I was oversimplifying the issue. I still think that discussion and spec'ing of this matter should happen as soon as possible... -- Alexia _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
