No, I believe the general consensus is to separate the export stuff from saving in native SVG. You're on the right track, and what you're doing wouldn't remove existing functionality, just move it to a different menu item (of which the benefit would be the whole point of the change, anyway).
The export function would serve as "Save a Copy" and "Save As" for external formats. The only thing it wouldn't do is Save as an external format and continue working on it (which is really counterintuitive and confusing anyway, since you're not working on the PDF you just saved, but an in-memory native SVG file, so it makes sense this way).
Something you might consider doing is having an option in "Save a Copy" (only) to automatically increment the file name.
JF
Alex Trujillo wrote:
Pardon, yes, was pretty busy today when I was typing that stuff, probably didn't look it over before I sent it.
I meant that saving native to Inkscape SVG should be what Save, Save As, and Save a Copy do, preferably without the option to change the format, then Export As or something would bring up a dialog or pane such as how I diagrammed in the document.
Only thing is, I'm now a little wary of -removing- existing functionality, so perhaps keeping the option to change the format inside those dialogs might still be important for some, while simply replacing the Export dialog with the new Export Pane, which will offer more options than simply saving the entire document as a different format; there would also be selection export for vector objects, for example.
- Alex
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Joshua Facemyer <jfacemyer@...400... mailto:jfacemyer@...400...> wrote:
Do you mean to leave "Save As" as it is, saving to non-native file formats? JF john cliff wrote: > And Save a Copy is very useful as is, how else do you do incremental > backups whilst staying working on the master file? > just my 2p > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel--0016e6d77fa086dab704843f5a58--�