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Is it possible to contribute to the user experience of GIMP? I've tried GIMP a number of times over the past 20 years and it's just totally illogical, imo. It w

Is it possible to contribute to the user experience of GIMP? I've tried GIMP a number of times over the past 20 years and it's just totally illogical, imo. It would be great to have an open source alternative to an Adobe product that was more well thought through.

pfranz 6y ago
What about: Glimpse https://glimpse-editor.github.io/ https://glimpse-editor.github.io/ (a GIMP reskin) or Krita https://krita.org/ https://krita.org/ ? I don't believe Photopea https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/ is Open Source, but it's a free web-implementation of Photoshop. Photoshop, itself, is rather general purpose, but if you have a more specific need (like digital painting or photo management and retouching) there are other tools better than Photoshop out there.
kody 6y ago
As someone who has never used an Adobe product (other than read-only), you get used to it and learn to love it.
lionkor 6y ago
I dont know for sure, but I would expect this project to be run like vim - any drastic or useful UX changes lead to you getting told off. But I'm not sure, it could also be that in 25 years nobody ever tried to change the UI/UX.
- berkes 6y ago
  That is snobbish, disingenuous and quite untrue. Vim community can be very friendly and open. Vim is fully scriptable and there's plugins for literally anything you can think of. Core is conservative, but changes are made, all with backwards compatibility up front. And it comes over as a snobbish, generalised 'look at those nerds, they have no idea how to build software, let alone listen to me who knows exactly how it should be done'. Who hurt you at vim, or in the opensource community that you feel you have to be so haughtily towards them?
  - kazinator 6y ago
    I am not lionkor, but I found the Vim community fairly dismissive when I reported the issue that Vim, executed in a Unix TTY session, annoyingly drops typeahead characters from the TTY characters, randomly causing your first command to be corrupted.
- prokoudine 6y ago
  Or you could ask us how we run the project. Or what we did about UX/UI. Or what we want to do with it.
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prokoudine 6y ago
Of course it is possible. Talk to us :)

pfranz 6y ago

What about: Glimpse https://glimpse-editor.github.io/ https://glimpse-editor.github.io/ (a GIMP reskin) or Krita https://krita.org/ https://krita.org/ ? I don't believe Photopea https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/ is Open Source, but it's a free web-implementation of Photoshop. Photoshop, itself, is rather general purpose, but if you have a more specific need (like digital painting or photo management and retouching) there are other tools better than Photoshop out there.

kody 6y ago

As someone who has never used an Adobe product (other than read-only), you get used to it and learn to love it.

lionkor 6y ago

I dont know for sure, but I would expect this project to be run like vim - any drastic or useful UX changes lead to you getting told off. But I'm not sure, it could also be that in 25 years nobody ever tried to change the UI/UX.

berkes 6y ago
That is snobbish, disingenuous and quite untrue. Vim community can be very friendly and open. Vim is fully scriptable and there's plugins for literally anything you can think of. Core is conservative, but changes are made, all with backwards compatibility up front. And it comes over as a snobbish, generalised 'look at those nerds, they have no idea how to build software, let alone listen to me who knows exactly how it should be done'. Who hurt you at vim, or in the opensource community that you feel you have to be so haughtily towards them?
- kazinator 6y ago
  I am not lionkor, but I found the Vim community fairly dismissive when I reported the issue that Vim, executed in a Unix TTY session, annoyingly drops typeahead characters from the TTY characters, randomly causing your first command to be corrupted.
prokoudine 6y ago
Or you could ask us how we run the project. Or what we did about UX/UI. Or what we want to do with it.

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prokoudine 6y ago

Of course it is possible. Talk to us :)