I have very poor eyesight. This happened suddenly in Nov. 2012. I can barely
type. I can't plow through the pages of instructions on how to manage my
account. I just want to be unsubscribed.
Can you PLEASE do that simple thing for me without telling me how dumb I am
because I can't see?
It's not logical to save a whole session if all one does is touch up a jpeg
file.
On the other hand, for people who do complicated image building over many
sessions, it makes sense to save a project and in that case it would be logical
to have an option that allows gimp to open the previous
Should GIMP be dumbed down for people who are too stupid to save their work?
As said before, there are many different ways to implement the New; Open; Save;
Save As...; sequence so that all users can feel comfortable with the
interaction and all users can be given the maximum security for
Exactly!
On 9/12/2012 9:40 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Ken Warner wrote:
As said before, there are many different ways to implement the New; Open;
Save; Save As...; sequence so that all users can feel comfortable with the
interaction and all users can
That's good news! I wish that effort all success.
On 9/11/2012 2:49 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Maarten De Munck wrote:
If you are really really annoyed by this behaviour, use 2.6, start a
fork, ask/pay someone to start a fork for you, use another image
The obvious design that satisfies both groups has been offered several times
and has been derided as --- I don't know why, although numerous attempts to
justify the current design has been proffered.
On 9/11/2012 4:52 PM, Ofnuts wrote:
On 09/11/2012 08:38 AM, maderios wrote:
Hi
I'm not
Just because the English doesn't meet your standards doesn't mean the viewpoint
is invalid. And maybe your refusal to see the thought in the message is the
root of the discord.
On 9/10/2012 9:32 AM, Simon Budig wrote:
maderios (mader...@gmail.com) wrote:
Because you're not dealing with
I just summarized the common responses to concerns about the Save/Export
redesign.
Personally, I'll be sticking with 2.6 until the current crop of developers move
on
to some more rewarding tasks and are replaced by more agile and reasonable
people.
On 8/20/2012 8:49 AM, Paul Naude wrote:
The paradigm for saving work was figured out and became a standard action years
ago.
New; Open; Save; Save As; have all the functionality that is needed. Along with
a few carefully thought out warning dialogs -- that's all that is needed.
If one is really concerned about losing work, one
You will be told to use other image manipulation software because GIMP is now
only for professionals that Save XCF files. And you will be told in no
uncertain terms that the decision to make GIMP only save XCF files is well
documented (so how can there be any question of the propriety of that
Like I said
On 8/20/2012 9:04 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
On 20.08.2012 16:36, Ken Warner wrote:
You will be told to use other image manipulation software because GIMP
is now only for professionals that Save XCF files. And you will be told
in no uncertain terms that the decision to make
1) Well then, if I open a jpg file and make layers and paths etc. and want to
save my work, why is it anathema to export it as an XCF file?
2) Your assumption is that there are layers after the image is flattened seems
odd.
On 8/14/2012 9:39 AM, Burnie West wrote:
On 08/14/2012 08:07 AM, Ken
wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Ken Warner wrote:
1) Well then, if I open a jpg file and make layers and paths etc. and want
to save my work, why is it anathema to export it as an XCF file?
Gmail tells me there are 58 deleted messages in this conversation
(yes). That is, after 58
But, continuing to *argue* here is fruitless.
This is most certainly and sadly true.
On 8/13/2012 11:20 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* maderiosmader...@gmail.com [08-13-12 14:09]:
...
Libreoffice doesnt ask you, you choose or write what you want.
When you want to save with Libreoffice, or
We have found that logic does not apply here. The only allowed interactions
are those approved by the developers.
On 8/7/2012 2:23 AM, Anoko wrote:
2012/8/6 Anokofor...@gimpusers.com:
I've seen the new you have to use export messagebox about 20 times now, very
annoying ;-). Why is it not
Alexandre,
Just because you write something down doesn't make it right.
Mein Kampf comes to mind.
On 8/7/2012 2:52 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Anoko wrote:
Its wrong because users don't think that way?
What users? :)
The are no users in general.
So the GIMP is for professionals AND old ladies. :-)
On 7/17/2012 1:08 PM, isabel brison wrote:
I rather like it actually...
I do GIMP workshops for (mainly) old ladies who don't know the first thing
about computers, but enjoy themselves doing silly photomontages and messing
around with
Well, that is the question isn't it?
On 7/14/2012 7:34 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Johannes wrote:
Having followed the discussions on the GIMP usability changes for some weeks
now, what I am missing most is a direct comparison of arguments.
Therefore
Or instead of the GIMP developers assuming that the users of GIMP are too
stupid to know what they want, they could just let the user make all the
decisions in a modal fashion.
If I start GIMP and generate a New file, bring up the usual file dialog with
all the types of files that GIMP knows
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