Re: Off topic Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

[Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com>]

On 11/08/12 02:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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
I agree that the use export instead of save / save as is a little 
bizarre. However, it doesn't really destroy the workflow - just the 
muscle memory.

I'd like to see export do something different - such as save a part of 
file or save into a non-graphic format. However, The Gimp isn't the only 
application that has trouble figuring out what belongs in save / save as 
and what belongs in export. Just get used to it. If you use The Gimp 
that much, it shouldn't take long.