>>No, Im telling you that for photographic workflows, desire to >>overwrite is rather rare
this is true, can be an unrecoverable mistake, even for one unique picture but sometime overwriting is convenient and desired Probably the best way is to have this choice in Preferences Also from an Usability point of view - probably for the first use of Ctrl+E in a work session - it's ok to present him in pop-up the choices he have - then the user will choose what he want also he will choose his option for the whole session. So if the user choose "Overwrite without confirmation" - then all that session Ctrl+E will act this way If he will choose "Bring me the save window every time" - then he will see all export options If user will choose "Export a Copy" - then for the whole session the file can be saved using incremental sufix Also as a new option probably is ok to have Save using Preset - that mean a place where user can make reusable patterns with rules for saving files. Example of a preset for a mass save scenario: 1) preserve the original anyway 2) make an incremental file with PNG extension and the same filename in the folder /home/web/X (with all compression options ..etc) 3) make an image with "sdfasdfasdfasd" name and JPG extension in folder /media/hdd4/Y (with compression options etc). 4) and so ... 2011/6/30 Alexia Death <alexiade...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jeremy Morton <ad...@game-point.net> wrote: >> So you're assuming that the user is going to 'accidentally' press ctrl-E, >> then 'accidentally' click on overwrite even though it's not the default >> selected button? > > No, Im telling you that for photographic workflows, desire to > overwrite is rather rare. However, users will assume export shortcut > to behave analogously to save shortcut, that being, dalog on first > evocation, silent save on rest. I know I do. Hence the annoyance with > nothing happening. > > -- > --Alexia > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > -- Nemes Ioan Sorin _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
