Re: Off topic Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior
On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 20:21 +0200, maderios wrote:
> Hi
> I posted this message on the Gimp user list
> gimp-user-list@gnome.org
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/2012-August/date.html
>
> Hi
> This message is addressed to developers.
> New Gimp-2.8 would be a good tool but it is unusable for me. Example: I
> use, hundreds of times per hour, the functions "save" and "save as",
> indifferently on .png. xcf or .jpeg. To this end, I set two keyboard
> shortcuts with one finger: save=s and save as=u. So I can save lot of
> time. With version 2.8 , it's impossible . I'm professional. My job is
> to work on images and I can't lost my time. Sorry...
> So back to Gimp-2.6. I compiled it on Debian Testing/Wheezy (after
> downgrading gegl and babl) and it works well.
> This is very annoying. It would be nice to recover ergonomics and
> traditional functions "save" and "save as" in Gimp-2.8.
> At least give the user the choice....
> Thanks for your work.
> Best regards
> Maderios
The strange thing IMO is, that save and save as are completely the same
and we need to use export nowadays.
For professional artists (music and drawing) Linux breaks the workflow
much to often. If possible I don't upgrade a system that once fit to my
needs, unfortunately there are sometimes reasons to upgrade.
Regards,
Ralf
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