On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:33:49 -0700, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 13:07 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Bryce told me that some dialogs need redesigning and "Export to bitmap" is one of them. After some serious thinking I came to conclusion that redesigning "Export to bitmap" is not enough. The issue is actually with Save as.../Export dialogs themselves. IMO, there are some inconviniences that need to be fixed.
I think that your thinking of the "Export to bitmap" as a dialog, and not a pallet. Now, I think that perhaps we need to change the name -- but it has been designed as a pallet (i.e. it is not modal, it changes and you interact with the document).
Yes, I think of it as of a dialog.
Let's look at these functions through the user case glass.
Designer A has done a nice sketch. Though he likes it, he wants to make another version. He saves it under some other name and keeps working on the new file.
Designer B has done several sketches. Now he wants to send them to his customer in some easy to view file format. He needs to save copy of each original file in a different file format in the same directory, where originals are.
Designer C is constantly exporting bitmaps of different parts of the entire website that he designed. So, he is selecting one group, exporting it as a particular name. Perhaps changing the color of a background, and then exporting several. When selecting each object the filename changes, along with the settings, and he can just click export several times across the graphic.
So, in summary, I think that there needs to be two things here, the export to bitmap feature as it currently is provides a dialog for designers who are constantly using this feature. Also, there needs to be an export function that is a little more generic and can be used for many other formats.
Well, it's more or less what I wrote about :)
So what do you think about a function similar to http://primates.ximian.com/~glesage/wiki/doku.php?id=gimp:png_export ?
Alexandre