Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP user friendliness suggestion

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 2018-11-14 6:21 p.m., Anthony Dunk via gimp-user-list wrote:
> my one big issue with this program is that it does not save to PNG or JPG unless you use the "Export" option. It would 
> be so much more intuitive if GIMP's "Save as" feature had PNG and JPG as file options.

It would be easy to change but it won't be changed. This has been discussed 
on many occasions in the past. Check the mailing list archives if you want 
to see the often rather lively debates that took place on this topic.

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