On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Susan Bishop wrote:

This is probably a common question but the main thing putting me off using GIMP is the horrible user interface. Are you ever going to upgrade it?

Troll?

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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Susan Bishop wrote:

This is probably a common question but the main thing putting me off using GIMP is the horrible user interface. Are you ever going to upgrade it?

We've been gradually improving it since 2006. I'm sorry to hear that you haven't even noticed that.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Susan Bishop wrote:

This is probably a common question but the main thing putting me off using GIMP is the horrible user interface. Are you ever going to upgrade it?

We've been gradually improving it since 2006. I'm sorry to hear that you haven't even noticed that.

I'm going with "accidental troll." Some people think anything that isn't what they expect is bad. Personally, I'm pretty cool with GiMP's UI. I know where just about everything is and I know where to find what I'm looking for. I don't see anything wrong with it. And after playing with the single window interface for a bit, I went back to multiple windows. I like multiple windows... works great for multiple monitors or for making the most of smaller displays.

And if someone comes in and says "it should be more like..." I'm just going shake my head. I don't know photoshop all that well. When I tried to use it, it simply lacked the usability I have with GiMP. Photoshop's UI, therefore, sucks. How do you like them apples? And seriously, what's with the way Photoshop does layers? When I create a new layer, I want control over the size, shape, color and all that. Sorry... didn't mean to make this into a rant against Photoshop... but isn't "good" relative to expectations and familiarity?

On 23.07.12 02:55 Susan Bishop wrote:

This is probably a common question but the main thing putting me off using GIMP is the horrible user interface. Are you ever going to upgrade it?

Hi Susan,

your line reminds me of what I was thinking in my first GIMP days. Perhaps the following advices from my own experiences will help you: 1. I started and kept working with GIMP, using it many hours. Step by step and with some aha experiences I found out, that GIMP isn't that horrible and some things are done really cute. Searching the help and the web you will find many helpful tutorials and resources. You find some hints on http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Users:Tips, too. 2. GIMP follows a particular product vision you find at gui.gimp.org. Check if your expectations are the same or similar. In May 2012 there was also a discussion on the GIMP developer mailing list about the targeted audience of GIMP
(https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2012-May/msg00234.html). If you find out, that GIMP isn't the right thing for you, another software might be your choice. Depending on your needs there are for instance Krita, MyPaint, GPaint, Picasa, Paint.NET, Phatch, Xnview etc. 3. If GIMP is your choice, be more tangible, please. You tried out GIMPs features to solve a particular task efficiently and think something existing could be done better? -> Participate in the GIMP UI brainstorm (gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com), report bugs or help improving the bugreports at Bugzilla. Wishes on new features should be checked first at Bugzilla, whether somebody already reported them and if not, discuss them at the mailing list first before filing an enhancement bugreport at Bugzilla. Please keep in mind that GIMP has a lack of developers and the existing developers do their work beside their real lifes, so things might go slowlier than you expect. You can speed up things by helping them, see http://www.gimp.org/develop/. Any help is appreciated. You see, the ugly duckling evolves ;-)

That's what I experienced with GIMP and I hope this helps you, too.

Best regards,

grafxuser

Susan, could you be more specific?

Am 23.07.2012 02:55, schrieb Susan Bishop:

This is probably a common question but the main thing putting me off using GIMP is the horrible user interface. Are you ever going to upgrade it?

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