Package: gimp
Version: 2.8.4-1
Severity: wishlist
* What led up to the situation?
Opened filename.png file, edited it a bit, tried to save it. The
normal action for saving is "File->Save"
* What was the outcome of this action?
Gimp wanted to create filename.xcf
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected to save my changes to filename.png. I did not want a new
file format. The file started out as a png - it only needed some editing.
I understand that xcf may be a preferred format - and the correct default
when creating a new file. But this was not a new file - I made minor
modifications to an existing file. In such cases, I expect saving to
the same file - in the same format.
If I wanted to save to a different file, I would use "Save As" or
possibly "Export". But plain "Save" should save to whatever file
I opened - and in the same format. (Or possibly refuse, if I really added
something that cannot be saved to such a file. I understand that I can't
save 32-bit color to a .gif, for example.)
Trying to unconditionally reformat every file as xcf is not userfriendly.
That format may have some advantages, but gimp does not know what
I am using my files for. In this case, the file is used by a webpage
where (1) its name is hardcoded, and (2) not all clients support xcf.
I am filing this as a wishlist bug - obviously the maintainers can
take the program in whatever direction they decide. But the program
got harder to use for me, and I cannot see that this offers improvement.
So although gimp works, I consider this insistence on "xfc" a (small)
design bug.
Helge Hafting
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'stable'),
(700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gimp depends on:
ii gimp-data 2.8.4-1
ii libaa1 1.4p5-40
ii libatk1.0-0 2.8.0-2
ii libbabl-0.1-0 0.1.10-1
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4
ii libc6 2.17-92
ii libcairo2 1.12.14-4
ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.12-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100.2-1
ii libexif12 0.6.21-1
ii libexpat1 2.1.0-4
ii libfontconfig1 2.10.2-2
ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.28.2-1
ii libgegl-0.2-0 0.2.0-3
ii libgimp2.0 2.8.4-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.36.3-3
ii libgs9 9.05~dfsg-8
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.20-1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 175-7.2
ii libice6 2:1.0.8-2
ii libjasper1 1.900.1-14
ii libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 1.8.1-4
ii libjpeg8 8d-1
ii liblcms1 1.19.dfsg-1.2
ii libmng1 1.0.10-3
ii libpango1.0-0 1.32.5-5+b1
ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-4
ii libpoppler-glib8 0.22.5-1
ii librsvg2-2 2.36.4-2
ii libsm6 2:1.2.1-2
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.42.2-6
ii libtiff4 3.9.7-1
ii libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 1.8.1-4
ii libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-10.3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.0-1
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.1-1
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1+deb7u1
ii python 2.7.5-2
ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3+b1
ii python2.7 2.7.5-5
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
Versions of packages gimp recommends:
ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-8
Versions of packages gimp suggests:
pn gimp-data-extras <none>
pn gimp-help-en | gimp-help <none>
ii gvfs-backends 1.16.3-1
ii libasound2 1.0.27.1-2
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