gib_mir_mehl@xxxxxxx writes: > 3) Putting Text on a .png (in-place file editing) > - Open bla.png > - Text layer created > - Export to bla.png exporting to currently opened file is admittedly ugly, but > consistent. The image stays dirty as the layer data > has not been saved. > - confirm overwrite protection > - check result in web browser > - Modify Text size > - Export to bla.png again > - confirm overwrite protection > - check result OK > - last finetuning, e.g. brightness > - Save dialog pops up, warning of layer data loss > - Convert to PNG (dialog button) layers get merged, image gets saved to bla.png > and flagged clean. > - Close no warning here Two problems/questions on this workflow: 1. Every checkpoint of the file (saving in case of disaster), something which now is just a Ctrl-S, becomes an operation that requires going through at least one scary dialog (the overwrite one) and sometimes two (at least the first time, where the user has to select the same filename that GIMP already knows). 2. Why would a user use Export for every save except the last one, then suddenly switch to using a completely different command to save? How would they learn to do this? Because of GIMP warning them when they try to quit that the file hasn't been properly saved? Won't most users say "But I just saved it!", click Quit Anyway, and then go complain to someone about how GIMP often, but not always, says images haven't been saved when they really have? This model seems much more confusing for users since they have to understand a lot more about what makes an image compatible with each format they might save to. (I know it seems patently obvious to anyone on this list why adding a text layer is different from doing a crop, but when you talk to users who mostly edit photos, a lot of them aren't very clear on differences between image formats.) ...Akkana _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
