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What are you basing your opinion on? How much direct understanding do you have of what the Gimp team needs and doesn't?

• rootlocus 8y ago
  As someone who uses Photoshop and Krita for painting and animation, I can tell you GIMP is unusable as a painter. The way they allocated this donation does nothing to help me use GIMP. And you don't have to take my word for it: David Revoy, the only professional painter to use open-source software and actively promote GIMP that I know, switched to Krita [1] [1] https://krita.org/en/item/interview-with-david-revoy/ https://krita.org/en/item/interview-with-david-revoy/
  • mschaef 8y ago
    I don't think anybody doubts that the Gimp's UI needs help - This has been well understood for over 20 years. To it's credit, the project has, over that time, made some significant improvements to its UI. (Starting the GTK project to replace Lesstif/Motif and adding single-window mode come to mind immediately.) The question is really this: what is the best way for the project to effectively use this contribution to improve it's product? Knowing what professional UX work costs, it's not surprising to me that they decided to direct this grant to supporting their existing developers and trying to bring in a few more with a Hackathon or two.
    • bopbop 8y ago
      Installing GIMP again recently and finding single window mode was a great, great joy.