Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:57:02AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Regarding people's replies of "how does GIMP know which image you want to
> save ?", ask the same question to gedit or any other
> multiple-document-interface gtk/gnome app. Logically, it saves the one
> you're looking at.
Doesn't pretty much every other graphics program use (what I consider
broken behaviour) just one window to do *everything*? Graphics
editing requies a bit more dynamic management of screen space than a
single window can offer. Gimp does that. Gimp also requires file
management, and when dealing with one file per window, seems best to
put the tools to manage that file in that window, rather than in the
toolbox window. I suppose you could make a save button like the
various other tool buttons in the main window (click on it, then click
on the file), or put the save command in the main window, but how does
it know what file you're looking at? I suppose it's safe to assume
when there's only one file open, but why waste time coding (not to
mention wasting time debugging and wasting the user's disk space with)
a function that decides if it's safe to assume it's OK to save from
the main window when it's easier (not to mention more consistant) to
just right click and hit save. I can't comprehend how one can miss
this, it's even more obvious than Bush's stupidity getting me a draft
card before I get a chance to move to a country less likely to let a
redneck idiot sieze power in a rigged election.
> So, hitting CRTL+S works... but how does GIMP know which image to save now
> ??
Ask your window manager that, it's not Gimp figuring that one out.
This one is equally (if not moreso) obvious.
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