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by zxzax 5y ago
What you've said is really not correct, at all. For one, Glade is not deprecated in the sense that it doesn't work any more, it still works okay with GTK3, however it has a number of limitations that may make it difficult to use (
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by zxzax 5y ago
Great news, I remember you talking about this before so I'm glad to hear this was started.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Please don't assume bad faith. Glade was not "killed," there are technical reasons why Glade cannot be used for GTK4 (I can give more detail if you want). There is currently a new tool being developed by a Glade maintainer, c
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by zxzax 5y ago
That's true to an extent, but the backend changes should make it more feasible to refactor the UI or to build alternative UIs with other feature sets.
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by zxzax 5y ago
You are correct that it does, but not every change made by engineers is a UX change. But even if you want to think of it like that, the backend changes still need to happen first in order to get any significant UX change going. >small de
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm not much of a gamer but what you are describing doesn't seem to be relevant, for example there are simpler games where moving using numpad is perfectly usable and desired. There is not really anything specific you're desi
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by zxzax 5y ago
Just to clarify, GIMP definitely has issues, and I'm not trying to convince you otherwise. But they are not issues that can be solved with more UX research or what you would typically call "UX work." That's what I think
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by zxzax 5y ago
That seems to not really be relevant, if you want to have a data-driven development process, then you have to, you know, collect data. If you said they should just use email or github issues or something, and have people submit their feedba
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by zxzax 5y ago
The DPI scaling issues should be mostly fixed in GIMP 3. CMYK support is not a UX issue, that is another thing that's missing on the backend. I don't think it has anything to do with patents, the problem is more because of lack of
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm saying this as some who's done UX and is familiar with the problems in GIMP, there really is no quick fix that can be done here. If you view everything as a UX issue that can simply be solved by moving things around, then we c
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by zxzax 5y ago
You really do not need to go to bat for 4chan trolls. There are much better ways to spend one's time.
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by zxzax 5y ago
>which violates the "no restrictions on use" clause from the GPL This seems to be a bad interpretation. This is not adding restrictions on use, this is complying with other legal restrictions that are already there. If that wer
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by zxzax 5y ago
And I'm saying you're mistaken, that feature never really existed. Trying to hack the ellipse tool into "quick buttons" to draw circles would not be what is expected, would not match the capability of other vector drawin
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by zxzax 5y ago
What you're saying doesn't really make any sense to me, that's like saying you bought a sedan and found that it didn't have a pickup bed, so now it's a UX issue because you couldn't quickly and easily figure ou
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by zxzax 5y ago
That again is not a UX issue, that is a lack of shape tools for that particular workflow. Like, this is not something you can fix just by moving some buttons around or by changing the name of the ellipse tool to circle draw tool and having
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by zxzax 5y ago
It would be nice if you were more specific. Most of the serious complaints I see artists making about GIMP are about lack of non-destructive editing features, or about lack of support for specific workflows, which are technical issues, not
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by zxzax 5y ago
People have lost their minds, because they don't want to see blackface, even in an ironic context? I wish you wouldn't say those things, because I feel the same way, I really don't want to see it, and I don't find it fun
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. It can still be operated offline, in which case there is no telemetry sent. The analytics is just another service that you can use.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Specifically, which legal threats and unethical behavior are you referring to?
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by zxzax 5y ago
It still is irrelevant, if you use it offline, or you opt out of the analytics. Yes, an adult will probably have to set it up that way for them, but this has always been the case with any internet-enabled computer: it falls on the parents (
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by zxzax 5y ago
I mentioned this in the last thread here, but due to COPPA, generally it is illegal for businesses operating in the US to collect data on children under 13, even if you ask (there are exceptions but usually you need to prove that you have t
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by zxzax 5y ago
I view that as a positive. Like a lot of other things in the US, the film industry has a long and racist past starting with the infamous "Birth of a Nation," which was highly profitable at the time of its production, but you could
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by zxzax 5y ago
This specific complaint seems to be about data privacy, not about a freedom being eroded. Also, since you can fork it, as has been previously mentioned, there seems to be no purpose in objecting to this type of FOSS acquisition. Worst case,
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by zxzax 5y ago
Generally, no, that's not what that law in the US is acknowledging. It doesn't make any special consideration for any definition of "spyware" or any other similar concept, it talks about all kinds of data collection, inc
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by zxzax 5y ago
More exhausting than developing towards an entirely different (and often redundant) feature set without any help from upstream? That's what is usually meant by "fork." If you want the minimal effort option and you don't
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by zxzax 5y ago
In my opinion, if it's desired to have FOSS driven by individual contributors, the legal education aspect for each contributor is just as important as the contributors knowing how to code. Sadly I think some projects are way behind on
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by zxzax 5y ago
I understand that you feel upset that they added something that you didn't want, but you don't have to continue adding to the division and cynicism. Forking is not the only move, and I would actually suggest against it -- what you
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, these laws aren't strictly concerning telemetry. Did you mean that telemetry is bad because children under 13 years old could accidentally use it? If so, that's the purpose of the law -- to prevent
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by zxzax 5y ago
Please don't do this, this is needlessly divisive. You don't have to make these (incorrect) assumptions about me and what I will use.
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by zxzax 5y ago
The issue here is that the server you downloaded the desktop app from is. You can reduce the amount of this you have to deal with by shipping a native app, but you can't get rid of it entirely as long as you plan to host a web site or

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