Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 09:32 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: > In that case I propose an IRC based scheduled and announced meeting on > this topic with the UI team? That way anybody who wants to can give > input and the output can be a complete spec for this. However the UI > team seems to have

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-08 Thread Alexia Death
Sven Neumann wrote: > Instead someone needs to sit down > with the UI team and work out a complete solution for Save and Export, > and then start to implement it. In that case I propose an IRC based scheduled and announced meeting on this topic with the UI team? That way anybody who wants to can

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 01:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That means it makes sense to work on a temporary solution before the big UI > overhaul happens? There is no such thing as the big UI overhaul. It also does not make sense to work on temporary solutions. Instead someone needs to s

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-08 Thread gib_mir_mehl
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 14:51 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The current protection mechanism for closing images is insufficient as > it doesn't > > differentiate between 'saved' and 'exported'. > > Yes, that is well-known and the plan is to change that at some p

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-08 Thread Alexia Death
On Sunday 08 June 2008 14:28:17 Sven Neumann wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 14:51 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The current protection mechanism for closing images is insufficient as it > > doesn't differentiate between 'saved' and 'exported'. > > Yes, that is well-known and the plan is to ch

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 14:51 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The current protection mechanism for closing images is insufficient as it > doesn't > differentiate between 'saved' and 'exported'. Yes, that is well-known and the plan is to change that at some point. But there is no one actively

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-07 Thread gg
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:46:24 +0200, Alexia Death <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 07 June 2008 20:01:17 Akkana Peck wrote: >> Alexia Death writes: >> > I'm going to echo my support for this. The nags on saves are >> > counterproductive. >> >> And often they're not even right -- e.g. "The

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-07 Thread Alexia Death
On Saturday 07 June 2008 21:47:06 Michael Schumacher wrote: > There are several feature requests about a changed export behavior: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75328 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75459 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164709 > > It has also

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-07 Thread Michael Schumacher
Alexia Death wrote: > How about having a separate save option for that in the menu? There are several feature requests about a changed export behavior: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75328 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75459 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164709

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-07 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Alexia Death <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > Exactly... Witch has bitten me in the ass a few times... That evil witch has bitten me a few times as well - even with the pentagram drawn under my workstation ;) Chris ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-07 Thread Alexia Death
On Saturday 07 June 2008 20:01:17 Akkana Peck wrote: > Alexia Death writes: > > I'm going to echo my support for this. The nags on saves are > > counterproductive. > > And often they're not even right -- e.g. "The image has > transparency, flatten?" shows up on anything with an alpha > channel even

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-07 Thread Akkana Peck
Alexia Death writes: > I'm going to echo my support for this. The nags on saves are > counterproductive. And often they're not even right -- e.g. "The image has transparency, flatten?" shows up on anything with an alpha channel even if every pixel is fully opaque. All those dialogs do is train t

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-07 Thread Alexia Death
> Solution: > > 1) the export warning for flat file formats should be optional ('do not > show this dialog again') > 2) closing images, which have not been saved to > .xcf, should trigger a warning ('you have already exported this image to > .png, but you will loose all your layering/path informat

[Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-07 Thread gib_mir_mehl
The current protection mechanism for closing images is insufficient as it doesn't differentiate between 'saved' and 'exported'. Symptom 1: exporting to .png requires clicking a nag-screen Sympton 2: closing a multi-layered image which has been exported before doesn't give a warning about loosing