[Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

[Michael Schumacher]

Von: "Raphaël Quinet" <raphael at gimp.org>

> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:54:29 +0200, peter sikking <peter at mmiworks.net>
> wrote:
> > guys, what a thread.
> > 
> > I say that the solution for all this lies in treating these lossy
> > (my spell-checker proposes lousy) formats the same we are (gonna)
> > handle indexed mode:
> > 
> > import + export only.
> 
> Eek!  That would significantly break the flow for what must be the
> most common image format for photography.  I prefer the current
> behavior in SVN, in which you get the dialog for the first time you
> select Save, but subsequent saves of the same image (while you are
> still working on it) will not force you to pick a new file name and
> validate the parameters again.

This doesn't contradict what peter is suggesting. AFAIK we intend to "break the flow" for anything but XCF(.*). A "save" should always do what the term "save" claims to do, it should not damage the file. 

Why do you assume that export will ask for all of the parameter settings again?


HTH,
Michael
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