On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:50:01 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) wrote: > >> But I just had an idea (sorry if anybody already suggested it and I >> missed it): What if the "merely harmeless to downright offensive" >> popup saying that Save is for XCF offers an extra button labeled >> "export anyway" or something similar? > > A universally accepted truth is that users don't read warnings. This > will surely freak out few geeks who do read warnings carefully and > recite them occasionally over a pint of beer in a pub, but mostly > people really try to make stupid dialogs go away ASAP. If they don't, their bad fortune. Making a common operation less convenient for everyone because some user may not realize what's going on -- and no way to turn off the inconvenience -- is unnecessarily paternalistic, IMHO. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> MIT VI-3 1987 - Congratulations MIT Engineers men's hoops Final Four! Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
