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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes

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[–] directive0 60 points 9 months ago (12 children)

GIMP is great but it definitely needs its own Blender 3.0 moment where they just completely overhaul the UI.

I've used it as my primary raster app so I'm way used to it now, but I totally understand the people who just never even bother to learn it because they are so turned off by the absolutely bonkers design decisions.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

The damn thing was written by a couple of College Students who had no experience with graphic arts and man does it show. The UI has been the number #1 complaint since the 1.0 release back in 1998; how it's never been updated / overhauled is simply beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Why? Looks basically the same as photoshop, which everybody seems to love.

[–] exhaust_fan 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Among other things:

monochrome color scheme prevents easy recognition of tools
dozens and dozens of arcane options listed alongside super basic options
weird sizing of buttons
no help search, and no search that can associate synonyms where users don't know what term to search for
no inbuilt suggestions when user behaves strangely (eg. user is spamming the escape key, searching "deselect", maybe suggest the deselect all hotkey?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can change the icon theme in the settings to a color one. That's what I always do. The scaling can be changed as well.

May I ask what are some of the arcane options supposed to be?

[–] exhaust_fan 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How do you change scaling of buttons?

what are some of the arcane options supposed to be?

Not at PC for a few days but IIRC I was overwhelmed whenever going through any drop down menu.