Subj : GIMP Up
To   : Mike Powell
From : Barry Martin
Date : Mon Sep 08 2025 07:12:00


Hi Mike!

 > The machine is training the operator!
 MP> One other quirk of the GIMP is that each new version (well the
 MP> last three anyway) install brand new configuration files -- even
 MP> if there is no real difference between the file layouts.  It does
 MP> preserve the old copies in a separate directory, but it is a real
 MP> PITA to have to go back and try to reset all of your old presets.
 MP>  Otherwise, the program defaults to what the developers thought
 MP> was the "correct preset" every time you open the new version of
 MP> the program.

Now that would be annoying!  I have seen programmes with a "Reset to 
Defaults" option  (hopefully just that one set!) but that is a user 
choice.  As for GIMP, I'd be screenshotting my preferences and either 
printing them out and/or put in a file to pull up at the update.


 MP> For the life of me I cannot figure out why, when the preset has
 MP> "transparent" *in the title* why a developer/maintainer thinks
 MP> that means the background should default to "background color" --
 MP> i.e. not transparency.  ;)

Does not sound logical to me.

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