Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 13:17 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:08 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > It's not clear what "Save Visible Layers" would do. Would it save the > > merged image of all visible layers into a single layer > Yes. I.e. like doing a flatten and then a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:08 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > It's not clear what "Save Visible Layers" would do. Would it save the > merged image of all visible layers into a single layer Yes. I.e. like doing a flatten and then a save and then an undo. I don't have strong feelings about it, but sinc

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Guillermo Espertino
>From my user perspective, I'm ok with the save / export separation. - Save only for XCF - Export for other formats (using the current method, guess format by extension, or manual selection of the output format). We users are used to save anything, despite if it's a lossy format or not, and that's

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Alexia Death
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:45 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: > >>> I don't quite understand. What dialog is useless? >> "Export file..." dialog you get on saves to formats that are not xcf. It >> does ask in some formats for conversion options but I doubt many people >>

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:45 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: > > I don't quite understand. What dialog is useless? > "Export file..." dialog you get on saves to formats that are not xcf. It > does ask in some formats for conversion options but I doubt many people > have ever done anything else th

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread Alexia Death
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:14 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: > >> So basically the whole dialog is useless and could just as well be >> replaced by assuming that the user clicked "Export..." and maybe a >> notice in save dialog that any other format except xcf may cause

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:14 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: > So basically the whole dialog is useless and could just as well be > replaced by assuming that the user clicked "Export..." and maybe a > notice in save dialog that any other format except xcf may cause some > data loss. That should

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread Alexia Death
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 17:54 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > >>> Could make sense to ask on the gimp-user list. But as far as I can see, >>> saving the current drawable is the only reasonable use case. We might >>> want to consider to make this easier by adding "Save La

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 17:54 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > Could make sense to ask on the gimp-user list. But as far as I can see, > > saving the current drawable is the only reasonable use case. We might > > want to consider to make this easier by adding "Save Layer" and removing > > the "I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 23:46 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: [...] > Could make sense to ask on the gimp-user list. But as far as I can see, > saving the current drawable is the only reasonable use case. We might > want to consider to make this easier by adding "Save Layer" and removing > the "Ignore" ch

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 12:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > from the docs: > The export file dialog shows up if the image type does not match the format > capabilites. > If the user chooses 'Export', a suitably altered copy of the image is used > for saving. > If the user chooses 'Ignore'

[Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread gib_mir_mehl
Hi, from the docs: The export file dialog shows up if the image type does not match the format capabilites. If the user chooses 'Export', a suitably altered copy of the image is used for saving. If the user chooses 'Ignore', the image is fed directly to the save plugin instead. Are there examp