Re: [Gimp-developer] proposed solution for: protection from information loss

2008-07-01 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 13:43 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: A long-term gnomish model might be to make it easier to drag things onto the desktop (or into folders in the file manager), but people use gimp also in other environments. You can already do that in GNOME. Drag the image preview

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposed solution for: protection from information loss

2008-06-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 06:20 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Carl Karsten wrote: proposed spec: File Open/Save/Save_as_Copy only work on .xcf - all other formats must use File Import/Export.[1] Yesterday I saved an image in xcf by mistake, by mistyping the .png at the end of

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposed solution for: protection from information loss

2008-06-12 Thread gib_mir_mehl
Hi all, Carl Karsten wrote: proposed spec: File Open/Save/Save_as_Copy only work on .xcf - all other formats must use File Import/Export.[1] What about using just Import/Export? The GIMP could take care of saving automatically, e.g. by writing XCFs to a private folder. Import/Export work

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposed solution for: protection from information loss

2008-06-09 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Akkana Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] For that workflow, what would be even more useful is to be able to have a command that could do both: save the current .xcf (.gz or .bz2) AND, from the same menu item or keystroke, save a copy to a simpler format. Then you wouldn't have to go back and forth

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposed solution for: protection from information loss

2008-06-08 Thread Carl Karsten
proposed spec: File Open/Save/Save_as_Copy only work on .xcf - all other formats must use File Import/Export.[1] Add File/Import and Export to handle alien formats. File/New and File/Import would be very similar: they both create a new image with various attributes. New gets the the

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposed solution for: protection from information loss

2008-06-08 Thread gib_mir_mehl
Carl Karsten wrote: proposed spec: File Open/Save/Save_as_Copy only work on .xcf - all other formats must use File Import/Export.[1] Add File/Import and Export to handle alien formats. Save_as_Copy and Export are the same (the user should be able to export as .xcf). This approach

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposed solution for: protection from information loss

2008-06-08 Thread Akkana Peck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Additionally, the 'forced .xcf' behaviour can be quite nagging - consider user experience for a quick Levels adjustment to a photo: [ ... ] Where i agree with you, is that gimp should support the typical workflow which centers around a .xcf main document with several