Open and save dialogs
From GIMP GUI Redesign
Open Dialog
- Open and Save dialogs should be implemented natively (be adopted to a platform)
- for opening the files from browser window both dragging and typing should be supported
- Open Location requires now that user adopt to machine. Small project to find the solution for a mini (ftp like) browser for Open location dialog could solve Open Location problems .
- drag-and-drop - opening images by drag-and-drop should work also for Firefox (now it works just for IE)
- Open New File Dialog should make it more easy to set right size and resolution.
- Image Size: width and height should be chained
- It should be possible to chose resolution for print and for screen without entering advanced options.
- Open PDF needs Ghostscript, this should come as an installer option.
- other points:
- something is wrong with sizing the pages preview
- width and height should be chained, what happens if aspect ratio gets altered by the user: squash or cut?
- other points:
Save Dialog - the most important thing about saving is that one saves exactly this picture, and right now, that's why:
- We need a big preview img window, but without rulers, menu bar, etc.
- We could set by default Zoom tool, to see the quality details.
- User shouldn’t be able to use other tools while saving (for ex. a brush). Even if it doesn’t save what got changed while saving.
- We don’t like the solution to place quality slider and other settings in the existing image window.
- Save as:
- Changing the name should be more easy. For example if you worked on image.jpg, then ‘image’ could be already highlighted, and you could just type the name without a file format.
- It’s important to be able to save work mask together with TIFF.
- Saving files with layers into JPG:
- Export, ignore: the terms are no good, what happens is not predictable.
- There should be a better dialog, safer, explaining more. (Now we will take this layer and merge it/flatten.)
- Better choice of the default formats (if a JPG file has layers, save it as xcf.)
- To be furthered discussed if it shall remember the last decision as a default or not. Because it may cause mistakes when it saves sth as JPG when user have few layers.
- Saving jpeg for web
- At the moment there is no Save for Web dialog.
- There should be a really big dialog with a big preview. The dialog should be as big as the image window at the moment.
- some advanced options are too technical
- There should be priority A options - always visible, other should be ordered by categories but in collapsed advanced sections. We need to give them subheadings.
- priority A: quality slider, preview, optimized checkbox, maybe progressive (progressive size order – could GIMP know which gives in a result the smallest size)
- priority B other saving categories – i.e. smoothing
- priority C restart markers, sub sampling, dct method
- There should be priority A options - always visible, other should be ordered by categories but in collapsed advanced sections. We need to give them subheadings.