I'm following the whole discussion and I'm more and more convinced that
a default keyboard shortcut for overwrite would solve this.
People is basically complaining because they lost a handy way to save
lossy formats back after simple editing.
Typical example: open a JPG file, adjust curves, save over.
I agree 100% with the separation between save and export because it kind
of forces me to work in a more organized way and helps me avoid mistakes
that costed me a lot of time before.
I understand that it takes some time to get used to that separation, but
in my opinion is a minor compromise if we consider the benefits.
That being said, I also find annoying that in a fresh install I have to
go to the menu in order to overwrite files. As Peter already pointed
out, assigning a shortcut for that is easy and permanent, but I wonder
how bad it would be to assign one by default, so users get used to that
combination for that specific procedure instead of customizing it.
I think that it would have a couple of benefits:
- The old lossy workflow would be back (it never went away, but now it
takes a couple of extra clicks). After learling the new shortcut, I'm
sure it will feel as natural as CTRL+S.
- Consistency through different GIMP installs (if you have to use a
friend's GIMP you don't have to worry about what shortcut s/he used for
that command).
What about using CTRL+ALT+E for that?
I guess that using something recognizable as an alternative to CTRL+E
would make it easy to memorize since it's one of the exporting variants.
I understand the reasons behind not having a default shortcut, but I'm
not sure if it really prevents a problem. I'd say that having a shortcut
would be a reasonable compromise to help the introduction of the new
save/export workflow in a less painful way for people used to lossy
workflows.
Gez.
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