GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 160565
jpeg save dialog always opens in easy mode
Last modified: 2004-12-11 23:32:47 UTC
jpeg save dialog always opens in easy mode suggestion: jpeg save dialog should open in last state. if it was used with advanced options last it should display advanced options next time used.
I don't think so. None of the dialogs remember the state of the expanders and they aren't really supposed to. I vote for closing as NOTABUG.
i vote against closing. the reson for that is the fact that the quality settings used last time are not saved when you quit gimp. that implies that next time you start gimp and do a save as jpeg you will need to change the advanced settings.
Well, we might implement that the state is saved from one invocation of the dialog to the next but certainly only during a GIMP session, not across GIMP sessions.
Basically what you are actually asking for is what bug #63610 deals with. Isn't it?
why not make an option in the preferences to set the default behaviour, show advanced save setting Yes/No?
Because: (a) too many preferences suck (b) plug-ins don't have only limited access to preferences in the core
It may be worth noting that nothing prevents a plug-in from independently saving settings from session to session, without using any mechanism in the core. It would be possible to add a button to the jpeg advanced settings saying something like, "Make these settings the default", which would cause a file .jpeg-settings to be saved somewhere inside the personal GIMP directory, and checked by the jpeg plug-in when it is run for the first time in a session. I'm not saying this would be desirable, necessarily, just that it would be possible.
Marking as a duplicate of bug #63610, since this is just one part of that issue. Further discussion should go there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63610 ***