On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:13:05 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: > >> All right, let's stop this nonsense. > > After reading that I honestly expected that it's going to end at... > >> You have every right to do what you please with GIMP. > > But no, it hasn't :) > >> You've gone out of your way to try to force everyone... > > Who are you and what have you done to Robert Krawitz, developer of > Gutenprint? Show me where you buried his bones. I'd like to pay the > last tribute to a great mind that succumbed to the nonsensical notion > that free software developers can or wish to enforce anything on > anybody. :-) >> If I >> open a JPEG file and want to save it back out as a JPEG, I know what I'm >> doing. Maybe you don't think so, but I do. These are not "projects". >> They're quick and dirty one-offs. I use GIMP because I know it. I >> don't want to go through the bother of learning a different tool just to >> edit images I don't want to turn into full-blown projects. It's not >> efficient. > > And you don't have to. Overwrite and be done with it. You'll have to > find a good explanation why I cut about a hundred of screenshots > yesterday (basically, open, crop, overwrite - nothing fancier) without > yelling at GIMP. After all, isn't that exactly the kind of simple > editing for which people are reluctant to learn a new tool? Could it > be that I'm used to closing images in a batch of 20 images or so? :) In what format? > I can see how dealing with the warning dialog at the closing step > could be a wee bit annoying for someone who works om many _heavy_ > images (which means lots of memory used by GIMP), _and_ I publicly > said that better ideas are welcome (at least by me). Now, don't > pretend you didn't read it. You did. And so far I've mostly seen "just > gimme a goddamn option" kind of reaction, with few (admirable) > exceptions. Maybe because people really, really want an option to at least just save back to the original file or original format without any nagging? > Noone said it isn't possible to tweak few things within the project's > vision. In fact we already tweaked some of them to meet requests from > users. Does http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-2-8&id=062d38d141907d095b92e7a1adc05cd1bc870be2 > ring a bell? What about > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-2-8&id=c3e904fab1b29224b7dd55bb5b4af49f34c3b335 Neither of these address what I (and many others) see as the real problem. I want a workflow where I can open a JPEG file, edit it, and save it right back without having to go through a dialog, and where I'll get warned if I try to exit or close the image without saving it back. -- 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
