> > The Export functionality slowly creeping into CVS Gimp is really nice, > but it leaves me with a dilemma somewhat related to my last set of > changes (ie fixing Save As... list of save formats) > > Should plug-ins which have working Export declare themselves capable of > all image formats for the purposes of the Save As... dialog, or is better > to show only the ones which would hopefully not need Export for the > current image type? > > I would like to tidy up the plug-in entries for this sort of data, but > I want an idea of how others feel about this before I make wholesale > changes. Changes must be made in any case (the settings for some plug-ins > are presently quite wrong). > I'm sure I have missed a bunch of plug-ins but I tried to fix the registered imagetypes of all file plug-ins when working on the export functionaility. My approach was to enable only the image types that the plug-in han handle itself without conversion. This approach is not really consistent since the registered image-type doesn't make a difference between layered images and those that only have an alpha channel. My idea was that the listbox should reflect the capabilities of the file-formats. I must admit that when saving I always specify the file format by extension and I never use the listbox for anything else then to check if the desired fileformat matches. > FWIW My opinion is that we could have a half-way house, where formats > are enabled [*] if they would be "visually lossless" after Export... > > So JPEG would claim RGB, GRAY and INDEXED, PNG would claim all formats, > GIF would claim GRAY* and INDEXED*, etc. etc. Might be the right way of doing it and certainly makes more sense then my solution. Anyway, I'm all for someone else to check through the save plug-ins once again, so please go for it... Salut, Sven
