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> Makes me wish people weren't so inflexible about the tiniest UI differences. It's difficult to please the converts. I replaced Photoshop with Gimp years ago,
by Joeboy 13y ago
> Makes me wish people weren't so inflexible about the tiniest UI differences. It's difficult to please the converts.
I replaced Photoshop with Gimp years ago, but I still find Gimp incredibly painful to use. It accounts for a tiny proportion of my software use, but a massive proportion of my swearing. I use to think it was just down to being familiar with Photoshop, but I think I can only excuse it on that basis for so long.
- akama 13y agoI had the opposite experience so I can confirm it is Gimp's interface. I started with Gimp and found it painful to use. I spent hours and hours reading tutorials for basic actions. Photoshop on the other hand was easy to jump into and start using just by reading labels. You still have to read/watch tutorials but things are much better labeled and organized and you find buttons/menus where you expect them.
- niels_olson 13y agoYeah, is it just me or are InkScape and GIMP both set up with rather unhelpful defaults? I didn't run into such problems with Huygen.
- windsurfer 13y agoInkscape is actually very good, and certainly comparable to Adobe Illustrator, if not superior nowadays. The main problem I see people have with Inkscape is when they have a MacOS computer, the only available build is from 3 years ago.
- neovive 13y agoI use InkScape on the Mac. To get the most recent builds running, you need install XQuartz which is not bundled with recent OS X versions.
- windsurfer 13y agoEven the latest XQuartz install appears to be 3 years old. Were you able to find a more recent one? I would be very interested if such a build existed.
- _delirium 13y agoI don't know of a standalone installer, but Macports has the current stable version (0.48.4).
- tripzilch 13y agoI love InkScape, but it's a little bit crashy when doing stuff like adding multiple outline borders around fonts. And the extensions are all very mysterious, slow and crash-prone when they generate insane amounts of geometry if you happen to guess the meaning of one of the parameters wrong. Some parts of the UI are very rough to work with. The gradient editor, for instance. Sure I can use it to make any kind of gradient I want, but navigating your colour stops through a pull-down menu? Then also not marking the current colour stop in the preview gradient, means you can't see "where you are" in your gradient as the pull-down is collapsed. Makes adding colour stops very unintuitive cause you won't know where they'll appear (before or after the current point) ... there's more, but it's all this unnecessary friction for something that should be quite simple, and has been done in various better or worse ways lots of times before.
- jbeja 13y agoInkscape is not the same history as GIMP vs Photoshop, Inkscape is actually very very good in what it does, one doesn't even need to compare it to AI.
- sanderjd 13y agoIt's often hard to tell the difference between bad UI and unfamiliar UI. Seems like most people agree on which side Gimp lands on. No idea which side Octave's GUI is on.
- dfc 13y agoIn the past GIMP was the winner of my personal disproportionate swearing award. That all changed when I started to use Calibre for ebook management. Calibre is far and away, the worst UI for "best in class open source software."