Re: [Gimp-developer] Export instead save directly

2016-03-01 Thread C R
Sounds good to me. I'm more than capable of choosing the correct file extension(s) and settings for myself. I think it's beneficial to have those settings already intelligently defaulted to when saving. I believe it will save some clicking in most workflows. Also good that it can be turned on and o

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export instead save directly

2016-03-01 Thread Simone Karin Lehmann
> Am 01.03.2016 um 15:05 schrieb C R : > > If Save intelligently determines the file format that is most likely to be > used to save, Export should not be necessary. Just "Save" and "Save As" > would suffice. > That's nearly exactly what I did with my patched version on http://gimp.lisanet.de I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export instead save directly

2016-03-01 Thread C R
If Save intelligently determines the file format that is most likely to be used to save, Export should not be necessary. Just "Save" and "Save As" would suffice. We could use the "multi layer" & "layer outside layer boundaries" convention to suggest that the user save to xcf, as normal to preserve

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export instead save directly

2016-03-01 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Montag, 29. Februar 2016, 23:57:10 schrieb C R: > > That would be terrible. Users not understanding the concept would suddenly > > be > > facing images where they can just save to JPEG while others can't, but PNG > > is > > still enabled (because they somehow added an alpha channel), and even >

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export instead save directly

2016-03-01 Thread wwp
Hello Pavel, On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:21:49 +0100 pa...@pamsoft.cz wrote: > 2. Do you know some photo/image viewer which can display xcf files? I am not > aware of any. Maybe there is some, but it is not important at the moment. The > important message is, that poeple (I appologise to Alex for s