Found a fabulous solution: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce/Fix-Improved-Saving-Functionality-in-GIMP-2.8
Someone has written a Python script to re-set the Save function to save changes to a file back in its original format! The webpage above gives instructions for installing (very necessary for a non-programmer), but the python script itself is here: https://github.com/akkana/gimp-plugins/blob/master/save-export-clean.py My original post may have been crabby, but now I don't need to figure out how to revert to 2.6! I can keep my repos current and I can resume recommending GIMP to my hundred-odd students. Of course, this means abiding by (and teaching) the same caution with raster-editors that has pertained since 1990: protect originals. Don't re-work images in lossy and comressed formats. Sadly, your reply affirms my sense of the condescension in the GIMP community--and I notice that you did not offer any way to revert this interface design back to match an existing working-method. In the spirit of the open-source community, I kept looking. I found a solution to the problem. I share it. Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/5/original/save-export-clean.py -- MetroPietro (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
