On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 09:48 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
I agree. The save vs. export thing in the new version of gimp is mind-numbingly stupid.
Makes perfect sense to me. It's the same logic used in Audacity. You are
always losing information when 'saving' to an image format - the record
of your edits to the file. You're exporting for production, you're not
saving your work.
It doesn't make sense for most people, because most people don't
give a flying fig about "lost information," they just want to edit
an image and be done with it. Optimizing an interface for the
minority of people who use it is not wise, especially when the
people who