FWIW Here is my considered opinion.
1. Save - should only offer formats where no information is lost. - it should not prompt for a new name if the file has been loaded and the location is writeable. 2. Save As - should always prompt for a new name (dialog) - use as default the load directory. If user saves to a different directory, use this new directory as the default for 'Save As' and Export operations. 3. Save Copy - should act like save but use an auto-incrementing version number as a suffix before the extension. 4. Export - means save to a file format that will lose data (all formats not available in Save) - prompt for directory, name. Use same name if already saved (different extension) - if user exports to a different directory than the Save directory, then remember this directory next time export is offered. 5. Import - means import a file into the existing scene. change nothing else indicated above.
FWIW - this system is consistent, clear and allows the user to control what they are doing. I think candidates for Save formats are SVG(inkscape), SVG. There may be others. The order they appear on the list should be by 'Importance'. Not alphabetical.
Cheers, Mark...
On 3/7/2015 6:09 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 01:54 -0300, Gez wrote:
Not everyone liked this change, but after some time things seem to have settled and people got used to it.
Not really. I'm still aggrieved by it every time I open gimp and I tend to avoid using gimp because of it. It just makes editing workflows costly because xcf is a useless format outside of gimp and it's a nonsense to save an xcf to edit a png or jpeg you've just colour corrected.
At least svg is a web format which can be said to be useful and editable. So we'll have fewer issues if we did that. We don't have a PDF editing workflow for example, just PDF-page importing & creation as separate jobs.
Rather than go all Gnome on the design, we should test different workflows for something so important. Know what we're giving up if anything.
Martin,
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