Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-06 Thread Richard Gitschlag
> From: l...@holoweb.net > To: for...@gimpusers.com > Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 19:21:20 -0400 > CC: t...@gimpusers.com; gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience. > > On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 12:23 +0200, eduperez wrote: > >

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 12:23 +0200, eduperez wrote: > In my humble opinion, the "quid" of the question regarding the new > save / export policy, relies on the fact that the new behaviour > reflects a change in the intended audience for the project: the old > "load JPEG + edit + save JPEG" serves per

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-05 Thread Johannes
Am 05.07.2012 12:23, schrieb eduperez: [...] the old "load JPEG + edit + save JPEG" serves perfectly to a casual user, who just needs a very basic image editor[...] Disagreed. The length and the shape of the workflow doesn't tell anything about the features of GIMP being used. You can use the

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-05 Thread bruno
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:23:52 +0200, eduperez wrote: > In my humble opinion, the "quid" of the question regarding the new save / export policy, relies on the fact that the new behaviour reflects a change in the intended audience for the project: the old "load JPEG + edit + save JPEG" serves pe

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 06:18:00PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: [...] > What I've learned is that no matter how patiently you explain things > or how carefully you choose words, someone somewhere will always get > things utterly wrong, overreact and annoy. Yes that is a fact. Just accept it.

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Richard Gitschlag wrote: >> ...the discussion that isn't supposed to be happening anyway, given the > >> already explained status quo, which is: we will neither revert, nor make >> it optional". >> > > The "not make it an option" part is the part I just don't get. >

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Richard Gitschlag
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:18:00 +0400 > From: alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience. > > ...the discussion that isn't supposed to be happening anyway, given the > already expl

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Daniel Smith wrote: > I've been reading a lot of these down the nose "developer vs user" > emails for what seems like a year now? And it strikes me how much this > I guess is really a possible byproduct of open source development, > though I think there are many OS p

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Jul 2, 2012 9:21 PM, "Daniel Smith" wrote: > > I've been reading a lot of these down the nose "developer vs user" > emails for what seems like a year now? And it strikes me how much this > I guess is really a possible byproduct of open source development, > though I think there are many OS pack

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Daniel Smith
I've been reading a lot of these down the nose "developer vs user" emails for what seems like a year now? And it strikes me how much this I guess is really a possible byproduct of open source development, though I think there are many OS packages, Red Hat, Ubuntu etc that are committed to "customer

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Johannes [01-01-70 12:34]: > > > I can live with the new process, too. The only thing I am missing is to > do the "Exit (close without saving)" step directly (after having > overwritten the original BMP/JPEG/PNG/whatever). > > At the moment, "Exit (close without saving)" is a "two-step" step:

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Johannes
Am 02.07.2012 01:22, schrieb Bob Long: > > I'm a light-weight user (Windows). The most common process I do is: > > Drag a BMP image into GIMP. > Crop using fixed aspect ratio - very handy for my purposes. > Scale image. > File|Overwrite > Exit (close without saving). > > I'm not negating the f

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Bob Long
Johannes wrote, Am 01.07.2012 11:55, schrieb Dave Helgert: I greatly appreciate the new save/export features of Gimp. It simplifies my workflow greatly as I often save/export as both jpg and xcf. I realized the benefits of saving to xcf the hard way and now save important steps as hidden lay

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience. On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:09 PM, houghi wrote: >> > Also I would be interested in knowing if the >> > default can be changed easily. e.g. I always work with jpg files. >> >> It can't. > > Well, that se

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:09 PM, houghi wrote: >> > Also I would be interested in knowing if the >> > default can be changed easily. e.g. I always work with jpg files. >> >> It can't. > > Well, that seriously sucks. From how I read it, it is because of what GIMP > wants, not what the user wants. T

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 6:43 PM, houghi wrote: >> > If the "no's" you mentioned have been lacking arguments like this "no", >> > then it's not surprising that the community keeps pushing. >> >> First of all, the community isn't pushing. You are not the community, >> nor few dozens of people are. >

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Johannes wrote: > If the "no's" you mentioned have been lacking arguments like this "no", > then it's not surprising that the community keeps pushing. First of all, the community isn't pushing. You are not the community, nor few dozens of people are. Also, it _was

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Johannes
Am 01.07.2012 12:27, schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Johannes wrote: > >> Therefore I suggest to make the new "fool proof" workflow optional, so >> everybody can be happy. > > This has been suggested before. The answer was "no" ever time and > won't become a "yes"

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Johannes wrote: > Therefore I suggest to make the new "fool proof" workflow optional, so > everybody can be happy. This has been suggested before. The answer was "no" ever time and won't become a "yes" no matter how actively you keep pushing. Alexandre Prokoudine

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Johannes
Am 01.07.2012 11:55, schrieb Dave Helgert: > I greatly appreciate the new save/export features of Gimp. It simplifies my > workflow greatly as I often save/export as both jpg and xcf. I realized the > benefits of saving to xcf the hard way and now save important steps as hidden > layers so I can