Hi, On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 11:28 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote: > Me too. The new setup where the preview is a layer in the image > dialog (I just updated and saw it) is wonderful. I'd been struggling > with focus/raise issues with the old separate-window setup (click on > the dialog and it would raise the original image window, hiding the > preview window, and even when that didn't happen I was always > confusing the two similar looking image windows); using a new layer > is a great solution and makes it so much easier to see the effect of > the quality settings. Nothing is new to that. The JPEG plug-in has always behaved that way, if, and only if, you are not using the Export functionality. The way Export is currently implemented, a duplicate of the image is created. This duplicate then has the layers merged and whatever operation is needed to prepare the image for saving. The JPEG plug-in then creates the preview layer on the export image. And it needs creates a display for it. That's what you call the Preview window. Two things to learn from this: - Save/Export urgently needs a redesign. Both technically and from a user interface point of view. It probably makes sense to start looking at it from a user's point of view first and then check how such behaviour can be implemented. - The preview on the image window as currently implemented by the JPEG plug-in is a disastrous hack that has never worked well. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
