On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: >> There must be a reason why one group of people keeps linking to >> http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Save_%2B_export_specification and >> http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Vision_briefing, and another group of >> people carefully ignores these links. > > I swear I read them and I think that I understood the rationale. But > that's note the same thing as saying that I understand what was wrong > with the save functionality in 2.6 (because I still don't).
It's simple. Primary workflow = creating original art from scratch, complex editing where preserving extras is a must. That's the workflow when you work iteratively. This workflow makes it easy to share your work in a delivery file format (e.g. exporting to a public Dropbox folder), while refining the actual project file. 2.6 didn't make it easy. Secondary workflow = overwriting original files. 2.6 made it easier, but it's not the primary workflow, and there are well-known workarounds. >>> Is it actually possible for a user to lose the layers when saving to >>> JPEG with gimp 2.6? The JPEG plugin asks to flatten the image, at which >>> points the users would cancel the process if he really cares about them. >> >> You seem to be under impression that people actually read text in prompts :) > > Maybe many don't, but at least they can't blame you for that, can they? :-) > I mean, you can get burnt by this issue once, indeed. Not once, not even by a long shot. People tend to relax and become overly confident. > and in any case you can't blame the gimp > developers if you didn't read a questions which appeared while saving > your extremely important file. :-) Our job is not to point fingers and accuse. Our job is to create software for a certain target group of users described above. >>> Or do you have reports when this did not occur for some reasons? >> >> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/2012-November/msg00190.html > > It seems that it happened with 2.8 Does it? What makes you think so? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
