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Probably many factors at play. One of them being that the UI in Gimp is pretty bad to start with compared to commercial alternatives. Working with Text for exam
by ekianjo 4y ago
Probably many factors at play. One of them being that the UI in Gimp is pretty bad to start with compared to commercial alternatives. Working with Text for example is atrocious in Gimp compared to Photoshop
- nine_k 4y agoBut it's like saying "it's broken, therefore I'm not going to fix it". I think a lot of things in Gimp are not broken, there is a worthy foundation to build upon. The text UI is bad but it's not the cornerstone of the product, it can be fixed without rearchitecting it. The library approach to graphical ops is more important, and it looks promising to me. Look how much has Inkscape's UI improved, to say nothing about Blender.
- ekianjo 4y agoThe problem is directional. Other FOSS out there seem to clearly understand what are the pain points and adress them as fast as they can while adding new features. Gimp feels slow in that regard. Maybe not enough dev resources or no clear focus among all devs.
- sbuk 4y agoThe Blender Foundation is a well oiled machine that actively seeks funding and offers easy ways to contribute. It all described here: https://www.blender.org/about/foundation/ https://www.blender.org/about/foundation/ Blender is, after Linux, the golden child of FOSS for professional level tooling and I’d argue the model for running an open source project.
- mort96 4y agoBut nobody is fixing it, that's the problem. It's not impossible to fix, it's just not getting fixed.