Jay Smith (jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 06/10/2009 04:33 PM, Simon Budig wrote: > > gg (gg@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> Subsequent Save as png should automatically set the default file name to > >> /path/foo.png . > > > > *Please* try to be exact in this discussion. You *cannot* "Save as PNG", > > you can only "Export as PNG". The *only* format you can "Save" to is XCF > > and its compressed variants. > > > > Thanks, > > Simon > > I have tried to stay out of this, but I can't resist any longer. It is > likely my own ignorance and/or not having seen a previous related > discussion, but..... I'll make it short to not distract from the original point of the discussion, if there is a need to discuss this in more depth, please open a new thread. > Why is there such a strong distinction between "Save As" and "Export"? > > To the _user_ what benefit is this distinction? We want to make it absolutely clear to the user, that with basically all fileformats you lose more or less information. We want the user to make a conscious descision on that. If some programs have both "Save" and "Export" and offer multiple options in both of them, then hopefully all the options in "Save" can store all the aspects of the document you're working on and load them back properly. More on the reasoning can be found in the spec: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Save_%2B_export_specification Bye, Simon -- simon@xxxxxxxx http://simon.budig.de/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
