On 07/27/2013 04:04 AM, Dirk wrote:
Hello,
it has now been months that Gimp developers seem to have decided that
their "product vision" in Gimp2.8 (debian/unstable) is more relevant
than the workflow of their users.
People who use Gimp *a lot* keep clicking "Save as" instead of "Export"
because that is what they're used to. Because it is natural.
If you think that it is trivial to make that workflow mistake over and
over - then you are a casual Gimp user and can stop reading.
If you use Google and search for "export save gimp" you can witness what
happens when marketing takes over the development.
The save vs. export change annoys me as well but I think staying with an
older version is not the right approach because sooner or later you will
miss new features (e.g. when operations can be computed on the GPU
instead of CPU this will often mean a huge performace gain which will
probably only be available to new versions or new file formats need to
be imported properly).
I rather try to get old behaviour back with a new version: An attempt
could be editing the keyboard shortcuts: Export and Save keep being two
different actions but when one (like me) saves as PNG in most cases, it
does not hurt to swap the keyboard shortcuts for "Export" and "Save" to
get the expected behaviour more often and only press CTRL-E with the (at
least in my usecases) less often used XCF.
The best solution, of course, is to join GIMP and add a configuration
switch to re-enable universal "Save" and "Save as" but I do not know, if
such a patch might be rejected due to the "marketing" mentioned above.