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This still blows my mind a bit - yes literally they should just copy Photoshop because everyone knows how to use it. Menus are fine, any complex tool has lots o

This still blows my mind a bit - yes literally they should just copy Photoshop because everyone knows how to use it. Menus are fine, any complex tool has lots of menus. I have been wishing for a photoshop-like GUI frontend for GIMP for 20 years. It's not even that far off. That sounds ungrateful, and it's not meant to be - I know this is just how it is, amazing stuff under the hood and janky interfaces I mean, linux today is full of macos GUI ripoffs and people love it - because Apple did some great UI design. I was using windows 11 recently and so many common things are complex to the typical user - e.g. making an application run at startup, anyway I'm in boomer mode so I'd better stop writing

deaddodo 3y ago
> I have been wishing for a photoshop-like GUI frontend for GIMP for 20 years. It's not even that far off. That sounds ungrateful, and it's not meant to be - I know this is just how it is, amazing stuff under the hood and janky interfaces They used to have a Windows build that was like this called "Gimpshop": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop
m463 3y ago
> they should just copy Photoshop because everyone knows how to use it except new users. you're part of a self-selecting population. Personally I think UI experimentation is awesome, because we might end up with an interface usable on modern hardware.
- noahjk 3y ago
  But new users already don’t know how to use the UI, so why should it matter? If anything it’ll allow them to get a better idea of where to go if they land on a photoshop tutorial instead of a gimp one.
- replete 3y ago
  I don't mean clone, I mean copy the good ideas the obvious ones like docking panels re-arrange the menu a bit. If this had happened years ago I think GIMP would have become more popular with a more accessible interface. Hamburger menus are from the devil. Be good

deaddodo 3y ago

> I have been wishing for a photoshop-like GUI frontend for GIMP for 20 years. It's not even that far off. That sounds ungrateful, and it's not meant to be - I know this is just how it is, amazing stuff under the hood and janky interfaces They used to have a Windows build that was like this called "Gimpshop": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop

m463 3y ago

> they should just copy Photoshop because everyone knows how to use it except new users. you're part of a self-selecting population. Personally I think UI experimentation is awesome, because we might end up with an interface usable on modern hardware.

noahjk 3y ago
But new users already don’t know how to use the UI, so why should it matter? If anything it’ll allow them to get a better idea of where to go if they land on a photoshop tutorial instead of a gimp one.
replete 3y ago
I don't mean clone, I mean copy the good ideas the obvious ones like docking panels re-arrange the menu a bit. If this had happened years ago I think GIMP would have become more popular with a more accessible interface. Hamburger menus are from the devil. Be good