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Gimp has been developed by developers for developers. They don't understand how designers use imaging applications and apparently they dont want to know either.

Gimp has been developed by developers for developers. They don't understand how designers use imaging applications and apparently they dont want to know either. For example they've been told so many times that non-modal dialogs on ms windows sux. Your workspace windows appearing on the taskbar not only clutter everything, it also makes your ork harder by switching between windows. Just to cater this thing a project called gimpshop was forked but gimp community should have included it in the core. hoever they've always shot down this idea. If they want to compete with photoshop they should focus on usability rather than features. The scripting features might be awefully cool for developers but for designers who have to sometimes make hundreds of clicks to get one pixel straight, usability matters the most.

halo 18y ago
Did you read the article? >"Perhaps the most welcome change to the UI is that the palettes (toolbox and docks in GIMP parlance) are now utility windows, which means that they won’t show up in your dock or task bar as separate windows" Apparently it doesn't yet apply to the Windows build (I haven't tried), but they have fixed the two single biggest and most obvious GUI annoyances - multiple pointless and confusing menus and multiple windows in task-bar. Another one of the biggest requested features - CMYK support - is on its way. It's /long/ overdue, but Gimp is actually seems to be making huge strides in the right direction.
- swilliams 18y ago
  Good for them, but I don't understand how they waited until 2008 to get this in. It seems like such a basic UI concept to me.
nihilocrat 18y ago
I think a lot of mac users (no, not me) would like to have a word with you about putting everything in one main window. This is completely anecdotal, but I remember hearing a few mac users enjoy the fact that its apps tend to follow the 'lots of windows' model versus the 'one large window with many sub-windows' model a la most Windows apps.
rcoder 18y ago
> If they want to compete with photoshop they should focus > on usability rather than features. The scripting features > might be awefully cool for developers but for designers > who have to sometimes make hundreds of clicks to get one > pixel straight, usability matters the most. Perhaps the same designers who love to complain about the increasing licensing costs of the Adobe stack should step up and start putting their money where their mouth is? If a few hundred design nerds donated even a fraction of the upgrade costs for CS4 to developers working on GIMP, they could probably get all kinds of nifty usability and functional fixes into the next release.

halo 18y ago

Did you read the article? >"Perhaps the most welcome change to the UI is that the palettes (toolbox and docks in GIMP parlance) are now utility windows, which means that they won’t show up in your dock or task bar as separate windows" Apparently it doesn't yet apply to the Windows build (I haven't tried), but they have fixed the two single biggest and most obvious GUI annoyances - multiple pointless and confusing menus and multiple windows in task-bar. Another one of the biggest requested features - CMYK support - is on its way. It's /long/ overdue, but Gimp is actually seems to be making huge strides in the right direction.

swilliams 18y ago
Good for them, but I don't understand how they waited until 2008 to get this in. It seems like such a basic UI concept to me.

nihilocrat 18y ago

I think a lot of mac users (no, not me) would like to have a word with you about putting everything in one main window. This is completely anecdotal, but I remember hearing a few mac users enjoy the fact that its apps tend to follow the 'lots of windows' model versus the 'one large window with many sub-windows' model a la most Windows apps.

rcoder 18y ago

> If they want to compete with photoshop they should focus > on usability rather than features. The scripting features > might be awefully cool for developers but for designers > who have to sometimes make hundreds of clicks to get one > pixel straight, usability matters the most. Perhaps the same designers who love to complain about the increasing licensing costs of the Adobe stack should step up and start putting their money where their mouth is? If a few hundred design nerds donated even a fraction of the upgrade costs for CS4 to developers working on GIMP, they could probably get all kinds of nifty usability and functional fixes into the next release.