On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Yottskry wrote: > The sheer arrogance of the developers is astonishing. Essentially the attitude > is that if you don't like the mindless changes they've made then you're simply > not part of the target audience. Apparently GIMP is aimed at professionals. > Fine, but that *isn't* the main user base, intended or not. > > The Save menu has behaved in a certain way since the year dot... now it's been > changed on the assumption that most people use multi-layered XCF images. They > don't. *Most* people use GIMP to edit a photo. Again, these people are not the > intended "Professional" audience, but there you have it. > > I open images. I "export" them to JPG (despite the fact they were loaded from > JPG in the first place...) and am then told "You have unsaved changes" when I > try to quit. I don't have unsaved changes at all. I have saved them, possibly > even over the original JPG image. There are no unsaved changes - all that's > happened is that developer arrogance has increased my workflow. > > Such a shame. I guess you will eventually end up with the solely professional > user base you crave. And you're too stubborn to even provide the correct > behaviour as an alternative for those of us who have been using GIMP a certain > way for 10+ years. > > The best thing that can happen to GIMP now is that the current developers all > experience some sort of programming-related long term memory loss and the > project can be taken over by people who care about what users think.
Yeah, sorry abouot the inconvinience, Yottskry, but it had to be done. Best, Alexandre _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
