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Wahaha wrote

Heh,.. I never forgave them for the "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you save as *jpg" bullshit, so I stuck with 2.6 and will continue to do so. Possibly I'm completely moving over to ImageMagick, though. Already use it for most of my image editing.

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Rambler OP wrote

Wait, what? There was a version without jpg support? I've been using it for years and have never noticed that.

Currently rocking GIMP 2.10.8 for reference.

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Wahaha wrote

Also... why doesn't the notification thingie in the top disappear after answering the thing that I was notified about? Do I have to manually clear notifications?

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Rambler OP wrote

Do I have to manually clear notifications?

Yeah. Which is handy for people like me who reads a message and then responds hours later. But obviously it should be an end user option to clear upon read or clear manually.

I'll add it to the to do list.

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Wahaha wrote

Thanks. The way it is, the notification will stay even after having responded to it, which I don't see the benefit of.

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Rambler OP wrote

Understood. I am hoping to be able to get some custom development done in time, and that is certainly something that doesn't behave in a way most people would think it would, so it's being added as a feature request.

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Wahaha wrote

Since Gimp 2.8 the software refuses to let you open a jpg and save it as jpg. You have to use export instead and jump through some hoops. If you try to save, Gimp tells you no can do. In a really condescending way, too. Pissed me off so much the first time, I immediately rolled it back. Since then I've tried a few more times, but this weird workflow of opening jpgs and having to export them doesn't work for me.

It's an image editor as far as I'm concerned. It's supposed to edit images. Not create elaborate projects worth saving. I open, I edit, I save (to jpg) and I'm done. The stupid export thing will also sometimes keep a useless xfc file. Really aggravating. Like you're not supposed to use the thing as an image editor. Devs have also been extremely conceited when it was pointed out to them how stupid this change was and basically told everyone raising concerns they should use something else. Therefore, this project is pretty much dead to me.

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smooth_jazz wrote

I can import and export jpg files just fine on gimp 2.10.
If you're talking about not being able to "Save" or "Save As" a jpg, all you have to do is select "Export" or "Export As" (Ctrl+E and Ctrl+Shift+E) from the same menu or just replace the Ctrl+S for the same.

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Wahaha wrote

That's what I'm talking about. I'm not exclusively using shortcuts so that approach didn't solve the problem.

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RoboGoat2000 wrote

Never been a big fan of gimp, even though I used it almost exclusively for image editing. I'll have to look into ImageMagick.

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Wahaha wrote

ImageMagick is mostly a CLI tool, but it does have GUI functionality. You don't use it by opening a GUI application that is called ImageMagick, though. It's an assortment of tools.

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