Comment 3 for bug 671874

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Jonathan Pobst (jpobst) wrote :

To me, Pinta's feature list is pretty much done. From here on out, it's mainly bugfixes and a robust extension system so other people can add features if they want.

Therefore, I don't foresee us adding a lot of new things that will ask new questions, which leaves us basically concerned over 3 questions we currently ask the user.

New screenshot - I think we have to have this one, but it now saves your last selection. I think you have to have some dialog to prepare the user for what is about to happen.

New image size - The current dialog is terrible. I would like it to have buttons for common presets. In master, it at least saves your last selection now. I also like "drag the canvas to change the image size", but that is a very advanced feature we will likely not have for a very long time, if ever.

JPEG Compression - Looking at GIMP, it looks like you can add custom controls to the Save File dialog. I think it would be nice to put it directly on the dialog where most people would ignore it unless they wanted to change it. I haven't looked at what it would take to do this.

I understand the desire to avoid the proliferation of asking the user questions, but I do not think we are on that path. I think the first 2 are very sane questions to ask. I agree with reworking the JPEG issue, because that's not something we should be asking the average user. And that's it. With only 3 questions (2 of which I think we should ask regardless), in my opinion, a preference dialog is overkill.