Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-06 Thread Richard Gitschlag
From: l...@holoweb.net To: for...@gimpusers.com Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 19:21:20 -0400 CC: t...@gimpusers.com; gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience. On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 12:23 +0200, eduperez wrote: In my humble opinion, the quid

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-05 Thread bruno
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:23:52 +0200, eduperez wrote: In my humble opinion, the quid of the question regarding the new save / export policy, relies on the fact that the new behaviour reflects a change in the intended audience for the project: the old load JPEG + edit + save JPEG serves

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-05 Thread Johannes
Am 05.07.2012 12:23, schrieb eduperez: [...] the old load JPEG + edit + save JPEG serves perfectly to a casual user, who just needs a very basic image editor[...] Disagreed. The length and the shape of the workflow doesn't tell anything about the features of GIMP being used. You can use the

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 12:23 +0200, eduperez wrote: In my humble opinion, the quid of the question regarding the new save / export policy, relies on the fact that the new behaviour reflects a change in the intended audience for the project: the old load JPEG + edit + save JPEG serves perfectly

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Johannes anonfo...@gmx.org [01-01-70 12:34]: I can live with the new process, too. The only thing I am missing is to do the Exit (close without saving) step directly (after having overwritten the original BMP/JPEG/PNG/whatever). At the moment, Exit (close without saving) is a two-step

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Jul 2, 2012 9:21 PM, Daniel Smith opened...@gmail.com wrote: I've been reading a lot of these down the nose developer vs user emails for what seems like a year now? And it strikes me how much this I guess is really a possible byproduct of open source development, though I think there are

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Daniel Smith wrote: I've been reading a lot of these down the nose developer vs user emails for what seems like a year now? And it strikes me how much this I guess is really a possible byproduct of open source development, though I think there are many OS

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Richard Gitschlag
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:18:00 +0400 From: alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience. ...the discussion that isn't supposed to be happening anyway, given the already explained status quo, which is: we

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 06:18:00PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: [...] What I've learned is that no matter how patiently you explain things or how carefully you choose words, someone somewhere will always get things utterly wrong, overreact and annoy. Yes that is a fact. Just accept it.

[Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Dave Helgert
Thank you developers for your patience and hard work. I've heard far too much bashing of the save/export change. Change is just too had and scary for some it seems. I have been one of the silent masses for far too long. I am one who has said nothing till now, but I greatly appreciate the new

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Johannes wrote: If the no's you mentioned have been lacking arguments like this no, then it's not surprising that the community keeps pushing. First of all, the community isn't pushing. You are not the community, nor few dozens of people are. Also, it _was_

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 6:43 PM, houghi wrote: If the no's you mentioned have been lacking arguments like this no, then it's not surprising that the community keeps pushing. First of all, the community isn't pushing. You are not the community, nor few dozens of people are. So how many

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
...@gnome.org Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 20:36:11 To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience. On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:09 PM, houghi wrote: Also I would be interested in knowing if the default can be changed easily. e.g. I always work with jpg files

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-01 Thread Johannes
Am 02.07.2012 01:22, schrieb Bob Long: I'm a light-weight user (Windows). The most common process I do is: Drag a BMP image into GIMP. Crop using fixed aspect ratio - very handy for my purposes. Scale image. File|Overwrite filename Exit (close without saving). I'm not negating the