In Windows, you can change the default programs for particular filetypes at: " Settings > Apps > Default Apps". Watch out, though - if you right-click a file and say "always use this program to open these file types" it will then set the default to whatever you choose as well. :\
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:23 AM Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 09:25 +0200, Cozy wrote: > > > I use Windows 10. Recently updated to GIMP 2.10.12. I search for > > > an image online, then use right mouse click to get to "Save Image > > > As" option. When I select this option, the window pops up for me > > > to name the file, but the only "Save As Type" option I get is GIMP > > > 2.10.12. > > Windows is telling lies :) since GIMP is a program, not a file type. > The Mac used to have this brokenness too, mabe still does. It's still > saving the file in its native format (JPEG, PNG, whatever). > > > I hate this so bad, I think of dumping Gimp. > > You'd have this with any program that registered itself with Windows as > the default handlers for images on your system. Did the installer ask > if you wanted to do this? Maybe it needs to make the implications of > saying "yes" much clearer. > > Dump Microsoft Windows :) but in th emeantime you can change the file > associations i think (i'm a Linux user, so i'm not certain how to do > this in Windows, sorry). > > > I will never buy another windows > > product...never.... so sick of someone else deciding they know what I > > want to do, and going ahead and doing it :( > > The idea of librea/free software is that _you_ own your own files, and > _you_ decide what happens. Of course, it's not necessarily easy to > change the way software works, but at least with GIMP it's possible. > > You could at least file a bug against GIMP's installer for Windows and > say that it needs to explain the step where it sets up GIMP to be the > default handler for images; this is done so that if you double-click a > JPEG image it opens in GIMP, for example. > > slave ankh > -- > Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ > with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read. > Click here to have the slave beaten. > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list > -- https://patdavid.net GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D 18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
