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Wow, I am surprised users critisize open source software so much for minor things that work different then what they are used to. Much appreciation for the devs
by anonymousX 7y ago
Wow, I am surprised users critisize open source software so much for minor things that work different then what they are used to. Much appreciation for the devs of Gimp from my side.
Did anyone notice how hard they are working on color management and how few other software packages do that right? We are about to getting a free-to-use image manipulator with professional featues. If you complain about the UI, mod it or support the devs to improve it. That is the benefit of FLOSS. If you saved a .xcf by accident, you can download/build GIMP and convert the file to any supported format even in 50 years. No data lost.
- memetomancer 7y agoWith all due respect, what you seem to be saying here is that you can't understand why UX is important to the target audience... A professional artist has to be able to work swiftly and reliably. Gimp's rough interface and stability issues present significant challenges to that kind of workflow. Moreover, this is exactly the kind of feedback needed to drive Gimp to competency, regardless of how well the project's foundation satisfies a person's idealistic impulses. As an aside, holding up that single feature as proof is hardly an argument, especially when a package like imagemagick is available and (arguably) better at the xcf conversion example.
- kekeke 7y agoI suspect a lot of the hate gimp gets is from people that have not used 2.8/2.10 I used to hate on gimp UI/UX but now it has SIGNIFICANTLY improved.