Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Posted Jan 22, 2011 2:15 UTC (Sat) by jthill (subscriber, #56558)
In reply to: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate by n8willis
Parent article: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

that snippet implies that Blender auto-saves changes made to open files

blender does auto-save, in exactly the way you say is proper. The "Vitals" section of the manual says so, and it's hard to miss the big "Auto Save" button on the preferences panel. It defaults to every five minutes, per file.

if you are working on one file, then open another

File-open? Ok, we can change the subject, but you never mentioned this before. Blender does save every time you quit.

More: manually saving takes a backup, and if you want lots of those you can tell it how many right there on the same auto-save preference pane. So acquiring the habit of hitting ^W whenever you hit a nice spot, before moving on to the next thing to do, because you can casually recover from doing that by mistake too, seems like a no-brainer to me.

More: hit F1, double-click the filename, ... nothing happens. You have to hit Open File or use the keyboard. Just a little syncopation to remind you, like it asking for confirmation when you quit -- which it does.

The file-open behavior description is at least accurate, but that behavior doesn't seem to be a problem in actual practice - for reasons which are apparent to anyone who actually uses it.

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