On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:56:09 +0200, Alexia Death wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Some options have high cost and only benefit an obscure case. In *this* >> case, the cost is relatively small (one option which is a refinement of an >> option that's always been there) and the *reward for the project* is high. > > The issue is conceptual. You do not need to fire up the giant machine > that is gimp to this little thing... GIMP is not a tool for this > usecase. It is capable of doing it, but it will not be perfectly > convenient. You can use a scalpel to cut bread. It will do the job, > but it would be done better and faster with a bread knife. However you > would not want this person cutting into your body with a breadknife, > simply because it's unsafe. You try to make GIMP into a breadknife so > you can more comfortably cut bread where as its intended purpose is to > be a scalpel, a tool for thins where unsafe operations are a no-go.... This is analogous to saying "don't use emacs just to do a quick edit; use vi for that". Different tools have different interfaces, and I don't want to learn two different interfaces to edit images just because I want to "quick and dirty". I don't want to have to adjust curves, or unsharp mask, or anything else one way for quick and dirty editing and a different way for something else. It's the same operation. I don't think Matthew wants to make GIMP into something other than what it is. But I don't think that an option to allow saving to a non-XCF file is fundamentally changing GIMP, either. -- 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
