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There is a tremendous amount of inertia that most be overcome to make changes to the UI. I don't just mean technical inertia which is probably large given GIMP

There is a tremendous amount of inertia that most be overcome to make changes to the UI. I don't just mean technical inertia which is probably large given GIMP's size and long history, but also people inertia. UI tends to be the ultimate bikeshedding [1] blackhole. Few people have an opinion about how a denoising filter should be implemented. Several orders of magnitude more have feelings about the UI should look and the workflow should function. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

wongarsu 8y ago
The most viable path would likely be to fork GIMP (while merging in their updates), make a better UI without being bound to the original project, and if the new UI turns out to be much better offer to merge it back into the GIMP project. You could conceivably raise enough money from stakeholders to do this properly with a few experienced UI developers, proper user testing etc.