Switching off a drop-list of files

[Ofnuts]

(08-04-2025, 11:35 PM)rafael_abelyar Wrote:

(07-09-2025, 06:52 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: What do you call "drop lists"?

And of the file is opened from disk, you can re-export over the loaded file without a file selector  File > Save (loaded from XCF) or File > Overwrite (imported from some other image type).

By drop-list I mean a long list of files which drops when I try to save or export a file. GIMP doesn't ask me if I want so. It just offers a long list which makes me make mistakes because I try to press button to save or export but this time cursor gets into so annoyingly dropped list of files and my file name changes.

I would like to switch off this annoying feature which appeared in latest versions.

If you mean the file selection in the file save/export dialog it has always been there and is standard practice in all apps. 

You are shown the existing files so that you can pick a name that doesn't clash with an existing one (or that follows a naming convention). And yes, clicking on any of the existing files sets the name, but you can further edit this (for instance add a -2...). 

And you don't get the list when Gimp knows that you are re-saving/exporting to disk (ie, overwriting the file you loaded the image from).