Re: some current 2.7 issues

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Liam R E Quin wrote:
> Some nits ,some -- especially (2) and (4) -- bigger than others...
>
> (1) The file->export dialogue action button says save, not export
>     (sounds really minor but given the save/export changes, can actually
>     be confusing)
>
> (2) The default save location should not be ~/Documents in the case that
>     a file has been imported - it should default to the directory
>     containing the imported image (see the spec)
>
> (3) in most programs, "save" mirrors "open", and "export" mirrors
>     "import" - if GIMP is erally an XCF editor, "open" should work
>     for .xcf and .xcf.gz files, and File->import should be there for
>     the "rare" 99% case when you want e.g. to touch up a photo, and
>     open a non-xcf file. So, please add file->import, with "import"
>     as the label on the dialogue box. (I think?)
>
> (4) images interfere with each other. E.g. open a colour image, and a
>     grayscale one, and watch the colour one turn to grayscale whenever
>     the grayscae one becomes active... and the grey one goes to RGB
>     seemingly at random, too.  This and (2) are making it difficult
>     to use GIMP right now.
>
> (5) I'm not sure that the image title bar is up to spec at all times
>     with respect to imported/exported. At any rate the little language
>     for setting the image title in preferences probably needs to be
>     expanded to include
>     . the imported image name & (separately) folder
>     . the last exported filename & (separately) folder
>     . the (imported) / (exported) string
>
> (6) There needs to be indication in the title bar (by
>     default) of when an image has been exported/overwritten, not only
>     immediately, but for the rest of the session, e.g. as
>       *warmsock (*exported)
>       warmsock (*exported)
>       warmsock (exported)
>       *warmsock (exported)
>     depending on whether the image has been changed since last saved or
>     exported respectively.  Not doing this means that people will lose
>     work.  There have already been requests to get rid of the "file has
>     not been saved" message when you close the image, since in most (no
>     all) workflows it's bogus, as the exported image is the final
>     product.  So, people get used to ignoring it even when they have
>     not exported an image, and right now you can't esaily tell if you
>     did or not.
>
> (7) Martin is not allowed to wear shoes until (2) and (4) are fixed!
>
> (8) The curves and levels dialogues look really snazzy in full-screen
>     mode, composited against the layer.  Some problems with this
>     (obviously incomplete) code...
>     . no title on the doc, so may not always be obvious what it is
>     . no way to drag the dock to a different part of the image
>     . once docks are composited they stay that way, even after you
>       leave full-screen mode. But they are not cmposited _before_ you
>       go into full-screen mode, so I think it's a bug.
>
>
> I can file bugzilla entries for these but probably not for a few days.
>
> Liam
>
>
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Not sure about script-fu and the others, but the python code will have 
to be adjusted to handle the new layer groups.

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