Re: Which Save filters should be enabled?
My $0.02, Let the user select what they want immediately. Anything else is merely annoying and doesn't add significant value. So my vote is for anything with export to say it can do anything. Seth On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Nick Lamb wrote: > > The Export functionality slowly creeping into CVS Gimp is really nice, > but it leaves me with a dilemma somewhat related to my last set of > changes (ie fixing Save As... list of save formats) > > Should plug-ins which have working Export declare themselves capable of > all image formats for the purposes of the Save As... dialog, or is better > to show only the ones which would hopefully not need Export for the > current image type? > > I would like to tidy up the plug-in entries for this sort of data, but > I want an idea of how others feel about this before I make wholesale > changes. Changes must be made in any case (the settings for some plug-ins > are presently quite wrong). > > FWIW My opinion is that we could have a half-way house, where formats > are enabled [*] if they would be "visually lossless" after Export... > > So JPEG would claim RGB, GRAY and INDEXED, PNG would claim all formats, > GIF would claim GRAY* and INDEXED*, etc. etc. > > * Just like now, you would still be able to choose ANY format by typing > the correct suffix when entering the filename. This enable/disable > mechanism affects only the listbox. > > Nick. >
Re: Which Save filters should be enabled?
> > The Export functionality slowly creeping into CVS Gimp is really nice, > but it leaves me with a dilemma somewhat related to my last set of > changes (ie fixing Save As... list of save formats) > > Should plug-ins which have working Export declare themselves capable of > all image formats for the purposes of the Save As... dialog, or is better > to show only the ones which would hopefully not need Export for the > current image type? > > I would like to tidy up the plug-in entries for this sort of data, but > I want an idea of how others feel about this before I make wholesale > changes. Changes must be made in any case (the settings for some plug-ins > are presently quite wrong). > I'm sure I have missed a bunch of plug-ins but I tried to fix the registered imagetypes of all file plug-ins when working on the export functionaility. My approach was to enable only the image types that the plug-in han handle itself without conversion. This approach is not really consistent since the registered image-type doesn't make a difference between layered images and those that only have an alpha channel. My idea was that the listbox should reflect the capabilities of the file-formats. I must admit that when saving I always specify the file format by extension and I never use the listbox for anything else then to check if the desired fileformat matches. > FWIW My opinion is that we could have a half-way house, where formats > are enabled [*] if they would be "visually lossless" after Export... > > So JPEG would claim RGB, GRAY and INDEXED, PNG would claim all formats, > GIF would claim GRAY* and INDEXED*, etc. etc. Might be the right way of doing it and certainly makes more sense then my solution. Anyway, I'm all for someone else to check through the save plug-ins once again, so please go for it... Salut, Sven
Re: Which Save filters should be enabled?
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Nick Lamb wrote: > I would like to tidy up the plug-in entries for this sort of data, but > I want an idea of how others feel about this before I make wholesale > changes. Changes must be made in any case (the settings for some plug-ins > are presently quite wrong). > > FWIW My opinion is that we could have a half-way house, where formats > are enabled [*] if they would be "visually lossless" after Export... IMHO don't disable the ones "visually lossy" (how ever you want to define that), but mark the good ones (highlight them, or put a checkmark besides the entry) or the bad ones (put them in round braces). Disabling something means that it cannot be chosen, the "choose those via the extension in the text entry" approach is far from intuitive. > So JPEG would claim RGB, GRAY and INDEXED, PNG would claim all formats, > GIF would claim GRAY* and INDEXED*, etc. etc. > > * Just like now, you would still be able to choose ANY format by typing > the correct suffix when entering the filename. This enable/disable > mechanism affects only the listbox. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Which Save filters should be enabled?
The Export functionality slowly creeping into CVS Gimp is really nice, but it leaves me with a dilemma somewhat related to my last set of changes (ie fixing Save As... list of save formats) Should plug-ins which have working Export declare themselves capable of all image formats for the purposes of the Save As... dialog, or is better to show only the ones which would hopefully not need Export for the current image type? I would like to tidy up the plug-in entries for this sort of data, but I want an idea of how others feel about this before I make wholesale changes. Changes must be made in any case (the settings for some plug-ins are presently quite wrong). FWIW My opinion is that we could have a half-way house, where formats are enabled [*] if they would be "visually lossless" after Export... So JPEG would claim RGB, GRAY and INDEXED, PNG would claim all formats, GIF would claim GRAY* and INDEXED*, etc. etc. * Just like now, you would still be able to choose ANY format by typing the correct suffix when entering the filename. This enable/disable mechanism affects only the listbox. Nick.
