(Feature request) UX: image options clarification

[maphew]

Describe feature

The wording in image options is open to misinterpretation. There is a checkbox for "Enable compression" followed by settings for max image width and compression quality.

I had changed this to a relatively high defaults, 4096px and 86% and proceeded to upload and import many images thinking the quality would be kept, since with a couple of exceptions they were well under these limits.

This seems to be true for Jpeg, but PNG images are changet to Jpeg, leading things like losing transparency (see comments in #361 ). Since PNG are already compressed they should not be converted to Jpeg, however I can see that some folks might prefer the conversion and smaller size. (Probably the default compressed format should be webp, but that's a different issue).

This would need an additional setting and unknown amount of new code, so at least the wording should say what happens. (Also in the Import File dialog).

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[meichthys]

If the second checkbox was changed to read: "Enable image compression and conversion to JPEG format", would that clarify it?

[maphew]

I would simplify to "Convert images to jpeg", and show quality setting before resize dimension.

I guess it would have been a better issue report if I included a suggestion to begin with ;-)