How to conveniently save a plain image in GIMP?

Question

Ever since the move to first class image editing file formats, it is always a pain when I am 100% sure I want to just crop one image and not care about it.

I have already copied it and don't want the program to be careful for me.

Is there any way to write a script and assign a keyboard shortcut in GIMP to:

1. Export as the original format (same as I already can do with Ctrl+E)
2. Write to the same filename (Enter?)
3. Accept the same compression as the source (Enter again, assuming the dialog takes the source image compression into consideration.  If not, I don't think I care much about that one...)
4. Confirm overwrite (Enter)
5. Allow me to close the image pane without annoying me with the "discard changes" option (Alt+D after closing the image Ctrl+W, which I may not want to do just now)

I already know the developers do not want to do this as a first class feature; beats me to why... that's why I am asking for a script: because pressing 20 keys in a mind-numbing way is getting ridiculous.

I think I can work a script myself, except for the "mark this as not changed" in step 5. It would be really nice if I could close the image at a later time (after that same-file-export) and not be bothered with the discard changes dialog, but I can't imagine how to achieve that specific step. Something like dirty buffers in VIM...?

Answer 1

I found the GIMP Saver Plugin that does exactly that and a little more.

I mapped it to Ctrl+E.  Now Ctrl+E just saves the plain image and I'm done!  perfect!  I left Ctrl+Shift+E to "Export as", which is the only one I use anyway.

It is perfect for those times when you have to visually tweak a dozen JPEGs and you can't just use ImageMagick.