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So what would you like to happen if you open a lossy format and then open as layers a .png? Do you want it to downgrade the quality or bump it up? Some people m

So what would you like to happen if you open a lossy format and then open as layers a .png? Do you want it to downgrade the quality or bump it up? Some people might want the former, some might want the latter. What if Gimp always has to convert the color-space? I wanted CMYK in Gimp at one point, but while there was an importer, there was no exporter. What then? Saving to .xcf was initially a pain (I complained too), but I became accustomed to the new routine, and from a categorization perspective, it makes sense. The dev is blamed either way - either by people accustomed to the old routine or by people who messed up from it and want it changed.

reitanqild 10y ago
Agree here, there is a reason I am not too fond of some self appointed UX people: Here gimp devs has chosen to make the nondestructive action the default one - a sane choice given their development resources. Worst case if you forget to export in the correct format you have to export again. If it by default saved back to the same format by default then in a worst case you lose hours of work. UX is about more than shiny, about more than copying Mac, about more than saving a keystroke here and there. (Hardcore dev here, not UX, not UI.)