Am 03.09.2016 um 23:09 schrieb Dave Howorth: ...
My first annoyance was gimp. It seems to have decided that when I open a jpg, I haven't 'opened' it, I have 'imported' it. More practically annoying is that when I select part of a jpg image and try to save it, it doesn't. It tries to save some xcf thing and I have to 'export' to a jpg. Which wouldn't be too bad except it still keeps the image status as unsaved, giving me one more piece of information I have to hold in my head instead of having the computer remember the obvious stuff for me. So how do I open a jpg, cut a bit out of it, and save that as jpg with least grief?
I am working a lot with gimp. I was very annoyed when they changed to this behavior, especially as I mostly work with .png files and use xcf only when I want to preserve layers. Although I'd still wish GIMP wouldn't tell me each time that the image wasn't saved while I just exported it, I got used to it. I use the shortcut ctrl-shift-E to export. It's gotten automatic for me in GIMP, which besides of some things like that, is a fantastic program that I even prefer over photoshop. You wouldn't find something better.
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The other program I sometimes use is digikam, but that tends to annoy me so I haven't tried to use that yet.
Don't now what's annoying you in digikam. I use it for many years now, with thousands and thousands of images. I tried many photo management applications and never found something that only comes close to the functionality of digikam, not even on Mac's. I work under KDE though, and have /not/ installed latest digikam version 5.x, as I read of problems caused by this plasma thing. Complex applications need some time to get used to them. It was hard for me to switch from photoshop to gimp (years ago) as I did not find the menus etc., but now, when from time to time I work with photoshop on somebody elses computer, it seems so complicated and unlogic to me... It's a matter of practice... -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org