Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Alexia Death
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 17:54 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: Could make sense to ask on the gimp-user list. But as far as I can see, saving the current drawable is the only reasonable use case. We might want to consider to make this easier by adding Save Layer and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:14 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: So basically the whole dialog is useless and could just as well be replaced by assuming that the user clicked Export... and maybe a notice in save dialog that any other format except xcf may cause some data loss. That should be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Alexia Death
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:14 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: So basically the whole dialog is useless and could just as well be replaced by assuming that the user clicked Export... and maybe a notice in save dialog that any other format except xcf may cause some data

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Sven Neumann
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

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Alexia Death
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

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Guillermo Espertino
From my user perspective, I'm ok with the save / export separation. - Save only for XCF - Export for other formats (using the current method, guess format by extension, or manual selection of the output format). We users are used to save anything, despite if it's a lossy format or not, and that's

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:08 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: It's not clear what Save Visible Layers would do. Would it save the merged image of all visible layers into a single layer Yes. I.e. like doing a flatten and then a save and then an undo. I don't have strong feelings about it, but since

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 13:17 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:08 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: It's not clear what Save Visible Layers would do. Would it save the merged image of all visible layers into a single layer Yes. I.e. like doing a flatten and then a save and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 12:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from the docs: The export file dialog shows up if the image type does not match the format capabilites. If the user chooses 'Export', a suitably altered copy of the image is used for saving. If the user chooses 'Ignore', the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 23:46 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: [...] Could make sense to ask on the gimp-user list. But as far as I can see, saving the current drawable is the only reasonable use case. We might want to consider to make this easier by adding Save Layer and removing the Ignore choice