[Help] Is there any way to prevent GIMP from closing while saving. It's my mistake, but I can't seem to remember to wait for it to save. (lemmy.world)

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The save dialog closes, and in my habit-riddled mind, that means the save is complete, so I quit. Only to realize seconds later my mistake.

I hope there's some solution to this, because "just remembering" doesn't seem to work.

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[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

if the save dialog closes and the application allows itself to also be closed--both without the save in progress completing fully, resulting in no save or a corrupted save and essentially a lost file and work... i would consider that a serious bug and report it as such.

[-] iocase@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, except GIMP heard of The principle of least astonishment and took it as a fucking challenge. If it astonishes you by behaving in an unexpected way, it's probably a deliberate GIMP design choice who's goal is to defy your expectations.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

then i would probably duplicate the problem in a standard debian stable desktop install, and submit the bug report there. let them pester gimp.

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