Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Burnie West
On 08/11/2013 01:38 PM, Jernej Simončič wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 06:41:50 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: GIMP is the only application I know of where the selection mask is considered actual document content (rather than an interface entity used for manipulating document content). That

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Richard Gitschlag
To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org From: jernej|s-gm...@eternallybored.org Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:38:04 +0200 Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior In Paint Shop Pro and Excel the selection is also saved with document. Speaking of Excel, Excel has really weird

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:56:22 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: Speaking of Excel, Excel has really weird cut-and-paste behavior compared to every other app I know; the Cut command doesn't actually remove anything from the document or place it on the clipboard, it just marks it with marching

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Jernej Simončič jernej|s-gm...@eternallybored.org [08-12-13 12:02]: On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:56:22 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: Speaking of Excel, Excel has really weird cut-and-paste behavior compared to every other app I know; the Cut command doesn't actually remove anything from

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
On 08/11/13 08:41, Richard Gitschlag wrote: On the contrary, this is the dangerous situation... - load file - create complicated selection/path to update part of the image - update that part - export image - quit (and throw the selection away...). IMHO the only safe case is when the image has

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Richard Gitschlag
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:14:20 -0500 From: jnagyjr1...@gmail.com To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior I had meant to send this on-list yesterday...didn't realize my error until Richard replied off-list. Don't forget the 'floating

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-12 Thread maderios
On 08/10/2013 06:54 PM, John Meyer wrote: On 8/10/2013 10:50 AM, maderios wrote: On 08/09/2013 03:07 PM, s.kortenweg wrote: When i started 50 years ago in the early days of IT as prof was me told that there are 2 rules for program developers : first keep it simple and second the user must be

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 11:14 -0500, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: [...] I just copy/paste and scale as needed but I cannot work on anything else until I anchor it. Actually you can also click New layer in the layers dalogue to turn the floating selection into a layer, and then you can work on other

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:08 AM, maderios mader...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/10/2013 06:54 PM, John Meyer wrote: On 8/10/2013 10:50 AM, maderios wrote: On 08/09/2013 03:07 PM, s.kortenweg wrote: When i started 50 years ago in the early days of IT as prof was me told that there are 2 rules for