On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:

I think it might be helpful if the gimp Save dialogue had a button to

"export instead", rather like levels has "use these settings in curves". But I expect few if any of the developers are still reading this thread.

I think that the idea of another button was rejected early on.

However, hopefully some devs are still reading: What if the file dialog was modified into a tabbed interface instead, so that it hitting +S brought up:

+=========================---------------------+ || Save XCF Project ... || Export to ... | || ||____________________+ ||- - - - - - - - - - - - -====================| || |

And hitting +E brought up:

+-------------------------=====================+ | Save XCF Project ... || Export to ... || |________________________|| || |========================--- - - - - - - - - -|| | ||

One big downside of the current implementation is that if I choose the wrong "save" option I usually don't realize it until I've already navigated away and hitting forces me to navigate again. Aside from that issue, the current philosophy is better and I think this might help solve both complaints.

There may be other ways to combine the two functions into a single dialog while still making it abundantly clear that there is a distinction; this is just one idea.

Chris