I remember when I left windows in 2002. Power supply and disk on my father's computer blew up and with new parts he also got Windows XP. On my own computer I was still using Windows 95 and 98. They had to be reinstalled regularly and if I needed more free space for something I would usually choose 95, the other time I would choose 98, I really had no preference. Anyway I was well versed in both. We had LAN over coax and after each reinstall I had to setup fixed IP address and net mask. When I tried to do the same on Windows XP I couldn't find it. I got really angry because it was at different places in both 95 and 98 so clearly Microslop didn't know what they were doing, there was no vision. And neither location was better, it wasn't like they slowly get it better with each new windows, quite the opposite, it seemed like it was getting harder and harder. I found it after 30 minutes and when I clicked OK the windows XP crashed.
That was the moment I realized that Microslop will never make good OS. They are incapable of making good desktop OS. Each new version will only look different to justify the cost but underneath it will be same old rotten garbage that gets harder to use with every new version. Infuriated, I returned to my bedroom, uninstalled my Windows, installed DOS, and started looking for something better. I tried many OS over next couple years, even rolled my own, but in 2006 I finally settled on Ubuntu, which at that time had, for me, ideal combination of repository size, freshness and stability. I'm still on Ubuntu.
I have hoarded 61849 short videos (44 GB, filtered, no propaganda, spam or low quality stuff) from 9gag, with this you could build a "Fakebook" of your own and serve your parents whatever you want, I randomly picked 5 videos:
- funny cat video
- superfluid helium document from 60s
- people jumping on a roof and falling through
- abba sos song (in Swedish, or Esperanto, idk)
- kid saving bus driver with stroke
Analyze them with LLM, generate positive comments and you're good to go.
Can I finally Ctrl+s jpeg image? And no, export is not enough because first time it will ask for for path and compression level which it already knows. I just want to Ctrl+s and be done.
Almost all programs treat the “Save” operation as something used with the native format, in this case XCF files. These preserve things like layers, etc. JPG and other formats are exports because after you close the file you can’t get all that stuff back when you reopen it.
I get it, and when Photoshop changed this default, GIMP followed with changing this workflow. It used to be different in older versions of Photoshop and Gimp.
Advanced user usually know exactly what they're doing, and opening a PNG or JPEG file, changing a few pixels, and saving it, should require as few key presses as possible.
I don't want the UI to get in my way when I open->edit->save.
'Opening a JPEG' is creating a new image and importing the JPEG to it. ctrl-e on first use will establish the export setting. It's two clicks if you really want to overwrite the original. I think it would be very easy to accidentally and destructively overwrite the original image file if it was different, when ctrl-e is in muscle memory.
This is not true with common applications people are familiar with. Excel and Word will happily "save" a PDF, and it behaves like exporting and doesn't change the document being edited.
Word and Excel seems to change behavior on every release. I don't think it's something Gimp should try to chase.
Gimp has save: "Save native gimp file" and export "Export an image file". It's a bit confusing to me why people find this confusing.
It seems like you can assign this action to Ctrl + S, yes. See here:
Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts → file → Overwrite […]
I think this would be awful default behaviour, but I guess it’s nice to have the option if you really want it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to find after reading your comment.
It used to be even simpler, though I am sure it caused all sorts of problems: for any Gtk+ program, if you hovered over a menu and pressed a new key combination, it would reassign the shortcut for that menu to what you just pressed. You still had to turn it on, and it was an amazing feature, but you'd occasionally reassign something you did not want to :)
File - Overwrite file, that's been there for a while. It can be turned into a hotkey, it's unmapped by default, and I don't think that'd change nor should it change, given how user hostile that'd be, the long history of how it works in editors like that, and with how they lean towards non-destructiveness of it all. Also, that just sounds like perhaps a simpler editor would be a better fit, like Paint.
So many believe that rupture or antichrist arrives in their generation, because it would make them feel special. If they die before, it makes them unimportant.
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