GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 793151
Unhide the items hidden in the Advanced drop-down file export dialogs
Last modified: 2018-05-24 19:06:34 UTC
This bug report is taken from comments 3, 8, and 9 that I made in bug 792952 regarding what's hidden behind the "Advanced" drop-down menu in various file export dialogs. Quoting comments from bug 792952 : Personally I click to open Advanced drop-down menu on the Export dialogs every single time I export an image, specifically to make sure the metadata boxes aren't checked, and also for jpegs to check the compression settings and such - none of this is "Advanced" - it's all "Basic". Setting a default to write or not write metadata is not any kind of guarantee that somehow the default gets overwritten. Sometimes "stuff happens" and the user's settings in Preferences get overwritten. Sometimes the user might have just been experimenting or made a supposedl "one time only" change, and then forgot to change things back. For my "CCE" version of GIMP I modified the code to get rid of these "Advanced" drop-downs, just to eliminate that "one more click" that had to be done to get an image exported to disk. If there is an interest in removing the Advanced drop-down for default GIMP 2.10, I could try to write a similar patch. This attachment (attached to bug 792952) shows a screenshot of various export dialogs without the Advanced drop-down menu, so the currently (in default GIMP) "hidden but certainly not Advanced" stuff is always and instantly visible: https://bug792952.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=367528
I agree these "Advanced" expanders don't make things better here.
Created attachment 370461 [details] [review] Remove Advanced drop-down menus for jpeg png tiff file export This very simple patch does remove the Advanced drop-down menus from the jpeg, tiff, and png export dialogs. But it doesn't change lines like this: <object class="GtkFrame" id="expander1"> for which the id "expander1" perhaps no longer makes any sense. And there are a whole lot of lines in the patched code files that mention "expand", that might or might not be part of setting up the Advanced drop-down menu, for example this: <property name="expand">True</property> Also there are "Advanced" drop-downs for bmp and webp images. I don't use bmp or webp file types (webp isn't currently installed on my system), so I don't know if it makes sense to have an "Advanced" drop-down menu for these two file types. Possibly there are other file types with export dialogs with Advanced drop-down menus? For example maybe jpeg2000 (another file type not currently installed on my system)?
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