On 03/24/2010 06:18 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote: > On 03/24/2010 11:03 PM, Lennart Svensson wrote: >> >> Sven Neumann wrote, On 2010-03-23 21:38: >>> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 14:19 +0100, Lennart Svensson wrote: >>>> When you start gimp from the promptline you got the Application Options: >>>> -a, --as-new Open images as new >>>> >>>> Why is this not available (as a button) when you open a file inside gimp ? >>> It is considered useful for applications that want to send images to >>> GIMP by means of opening them from a temporary location. We haven't seen >>> any potential use for it in the user interface so far. >>> >>> >>> Sven >>> >>> >>> >> This button should inhibit the possibility to save the file during editing >> and >> destroy the original file. Same as the command line option -a. > > There are plenty of other strategies you can use > * Only open copies of files > * Version control your files > * When you discover you overwrote a file, if possible, undo to the > initial state of the image and resave > > Having a button as you propose is not an elegant solution to the problem > you are trying to solve. > > BR, > Martin
Martin's options above and Sven's option to open and then do a SaveAs.... all, in my opinion, sort of miss the point. My observation is that the "OpenAs" protects the user from themself. If a user (myself included!!!) is going is screw up a file, these sensible methods that Martin and Sven list are probably not going to save the user from themself. However, IF you want to argue that such a user won't think to use (or understand the meaning of) an OpenAs feature, I would probably agree with you. People who need to be protected from themselves often find ways around every such protection. And that includes me. ;-) For myself, I can see OpenAs being useful. If Gimp had taskbar kinds of icons (my 2.6.6 on Linux does not; maybe some others do?), I would _not_ include OpenAs on a taskbar by default (but I like configurable taskbars to which one can add icons as one pleases, but that is different subject). However, I would include OpenAs in the File menu, if there is to be such a feature. My 2 øre worth... Jay P.S. More importantly, please let's be sure that all the file "create" PERMISSIONS are being created correctly. I already posted a bug on this, but I sure am getting tired of files being created with "rw- r-- r--" even though the umask, directory perms, etc., and everything else is exactly as it should be. This may have already been fixed, but I don't have the skills to compile/install or whatever without hiring somebody, which I am too cheap to do until I upgrade my OS from Ubuntu 8.04 to the latest and redo everything. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
