Ubuntu – Avoid “save for web” in Gimp

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Previously Gimp could directly open and save JPEG and PNG-images. Since Ubuntu 12.10 Gimp is upgraded and requires me to save via a "save for web"-dialog. I have several issues with this dialog and consider it a severe regression:

  • It does not open the location-dialog in the folder where the "current image" lives. Requiring deep clicking.
  • When chaning some details in the image, re-saving it as PNG or JPG requires me to go through all the steps instead of hitting a shortcut [ctrl]-[s].
  • When opening a JPG, gimp forces me to save the image as xcf; probably so it can retain information; which makes little sense, because the JPG it opened is already lossy (lost information).

Is there a (hidden) setting to revert to the previous situation or to tweak the current one?

Am I doing something wrong? I can hardly beleive that one of the most important usages of Gimp (preparing images for web) has such a severe lack of detailed finishing.

Is there a bug- or issue in the Gimp issuetracker that I am not aware of, which deals with these issues?

Best Answer

For my workflow here the definitely fastest way to safe an edited file back to the path it resides is using the "File -> Overwrite xxx" menu which appears after an existing file was edited:

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To further speed things up we can also define a key shortcut for file-overwrite which, after removing the shortcut for file-save could also be Ctrl + S :

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