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

2008-06-09 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

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

2008-06-09 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

2008-06-09 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 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

2008-06-08 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 change

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 point.

[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

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 information if

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 the

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 if every

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 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 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 been

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 image has