On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:24:59 +0200, Alexia Death wrote: > Just pointing this out again - in the future vision, that we are > approaching step by step, the export operation with it's tasks, like > scale etc should not require you creating a new image for this > process... It would just be a view on top of the existing xcf project > - very much like a target complation is in IDE-s. But this future can > not happen in one single release. It will come iteratvely. This > separation is just one step on a long way. First mandatory step... "Existing XCF project". Here's the thing: not every image I want to edit is something I think of as a "project". Sometimes it's just a "bug fix" or minor enhancement (such as crop/unsharp mask/rescale). I'm starting from a JPEG file and ending up with one, and have no practical reason to ever have an XCF file since I'm pretty confident I'm not going to be making a lot of further changes. -- 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