On Jan 24, 2010, at 2:21 PM, bulia byak wrote:
2010/1/23 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>:
Looks like the gist of the document is similar to what I proposed when a "Publish" option was discussed about a year ago (precisely, 24-02-09, the thread was called "Export, Publish and Save As"):
- "Save" dialog would only save to Inkscape SVG or Compressed Inkscape SVG
- "Export" dialog would save to all other formats
I personally have no problem with the current behavior, but I think we will keep getting complaints about this, so perhaps it's best to adopt GIMP's approach by now. At least we will be able to blame them for the result :)
Are there any objections to the GIMP approach?
I'd have to look for the specifics but in general what we should do includes:
* "Save" stores the current document that had previously been opened, in it's native format.
* "Save as" is the same as "Save" except it allows one to specify a new name (and thus will happen to warn if the same name is chose, etc.)
* "Export" saves data in some non-native format, but leaves the existing document marked as "dirty" and thus still in need of save.
* "Save" should only operate on "native" formats that preserve full editing abilities. Inkscape SVG and compressed Inkscape SVG are the first of these. Additionally any "SVG Complete" type formats (such as .svg+folder, or XOP packaged) might also qualify to go under "Save".
* The document 'dirty' flag only gets cleared by a successful "Save" or "Save As".
* "Save a copy as..." is the same as "Save As..." but does not replace the current name nor resets the dirty flag.