GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 134990
TGA save settings not remembered
Last modified: 2005-04-29 16:50:14 UTC
Hello, I have found the tga save settings to be rather limited. I would like to suggest some revisions to make it more usable. Some things I think should be improved: 1. If a tga is loaded as an "uncompressed tga" with "origin bottom left", when I click "save" the output file should also be an "uncompressed tga". Not "RLE" and not "origin top left"... 2. If a user "save as" for a tga file, and the input image was "uncompressed tga" with "origin bottom left" the tga save options should default to the same "uncompressed tga" with "origin bottom left" format.. 3. If a user "save as" for a tga file, and turns off the default "RLE tga" with "origin top left" then this should be saved in a gimp settings file so that the next time a user does this it defaults to their preferred tga format. Kind regards I replicated this bug with: gimp-2.0-pre2-i686-setup.zip gtk+-2.2.4-setup-2.zip
Your examples 1 and 2 are basically the same and could be an interesting addition to the TGA plug-in. The example 3 is different and is wrong from my point of view: what you do when saving an image should not alter the defaults that are used for saving other images. But this can be solved by allowing some settings (presets) to be saved (by an explicit action of the user) and re-used for other images. This is already covered by bug #63610 and bug #120829 so let's keep this out of this bug report and focus on your first two examples.
Hello Raphaël Quinet Thanks for your feedback to my suggestions. Sounds like (3) is covered then. Something like a tick box "[x] Save as default settings" would be great :) For my (1) and (2) suggestions, do you think this could be workable? to store the settings when a file is loaded, (the tga plug-in settings are presently stored while gimp is in memory only from what I can tell, as my settings are remembered between multiple "save as", but not "save") Thanks for confirming as NEW. Kind regards
Somewhat related: I open a TIFF image, I'm not sure what the compression type is. Then I edit the image. Then "Save as" anewname.tiff; in the TIFF options box, LZW is the default (because the original was LZW?). Anyway, because of the patent and GIMP not being able to do LZW compression, I choose deflate. I do some more editing. Then I do "Save", GIMP tries to do LZW compression, reports the failure, but it does write to the disk; the resulting anewname.tiff is 8 (or so) bytes big. 1. I don't think it should do LZW here, I did a Save-as with deflate, and I would assume that Save would try the same options. 2. If it fails, why does it write to the disk, destroying my image? A couple of times I did not care about my second edits, when the second save failed, so I quit gimp. Just to find that my image was gone. Now I have learned... Perhaps this is really bug #63610. But it seems that the settings are not kept even during the same session...
Sorry but why can't your TIFF plug-in do LZW compression? The only reason I can think of is that your distributor patched the plug-in. In that case he's done a very bad job at this and should be blamed for it.
The summary of this report should be changed. As it stands it looks like a duplicate of bug #63610.
Closing this report since obviously part of the problem was caused by a patched TIFF plug-in and the other part is handled in bug #63610. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63610 ***