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> The text tool is horrible, how could you even ship it? I haven't tried Krita yet, but recently had to do some text compositions in GIMP 2.8.18 (Debian 9.11)
by newnewpdro 7y ago
> The text tool is horrible, how could you even ship it?
I haven't tried Krita yet, but recently had to do some text compositions in GIMP 2.8.18 (Debian 9.11) and the UX was absolutely awful. I don't remember GIMP's text tool driving me insane when I last did such things a decade or longer ago, but the on-canvas widget in 2.8.18 is quite bad.
- zozbot234 7y agoDebian 9.11 is out of date and will soon be unsupported altogether. You should upgrade to Debian 10 (currently at 10.2) which comes with an up-to-date version of GIMP. If you can't do a wholesale upgrade for some reason, use the official backports channel to install an updated version of GIMP.
- a1369209993 7y agoFWIW, GIMP 2.6's text tool is solidly mediocre. I stopped updating because 2.8 broke Ctrl-S (vocally on purpose), so it wouldn't surprise me if they also ruined text compositions. Contra zozbot234, it is very unlikely upgrading to Debian 10 will improve anything.