Alan Horkan wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, graffoo wrote:
of export like in current PNG export dialog. Like GIMP does that.
That is an immensely annoying way of doing this.
You are prompted to set the options EVERY TIME. There is no way you will want to change the options absolutely every time, you shouldn't even need to change the options half of the time.
I have seen applicatoins which have an Options button in the Save dialog which allows you to quickly get to the import/export section of preferences and change the settings, without needing to bother you with this information absolutely every time.
Yes I know but I'm not sure this is possible in the GTK Save dialog (I'm not a programmer) because every app based on GTK using the standard
sure it is, the Export dialog is a modified version of the standard dialog, adding a "More" button to show a seperate format specific dialog would be relatively uncomplicated.
Yes, this seems to be the best way ;)
is done this way. Look at GIMP. But if it could be done I propose to have a check box instead of a button. Like Corel Draw has it. This way is better also for people who need to always tweak export settings.
People don't normally expect a check box to cause a whole new window to pop-up or take them to a preferenes dialog.
Well in Corel Draw the checkbox doesn't take you immediately to settings. It looks like this:
[] Show advanced settings dialog after hitting OK
and this status is saved between sessions. So people who don't need to see settings are never bothered and those who need to tweak them are one click closer to them ;)