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[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 37 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

Aw man i was hoping for a big ui upgrade like when blender released version 2.8 that now even cinema4d is copying.

I fear gimp truly doesnt care about its ui/ux because technically everything you want to do is possible as long as you learn the ways ans they dont care to attract an audience thats not die hard FOSS people. For example schools havent been able to use it because theyre so deadset on their nsfw name and schools cant have kids googling gimp with the pictures that will show up

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

I fear gimp truly doesnt care about its ui/ux

Why, because its been the single most requested change by the GIMP community for 20+ years and its the one thing they refuse to address?? Dont be silly, its not like the devs are acting like the guy who makes Filezilla who has been steadfastly refusing to implement a 'dark' feature simply because he does think anyone wants it.. oh wait

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 1 points 5 hours ago

My college taught us GIMP for anyone in the CIS program, but not the actual graphic design track.

[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No self-respecting UI designer would ever want to work on that dinosaur of a codebase. The GIMP team is simply unable to do what Blender did, even if they made the UI their number one priority.

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I mean the whole point of doing the mega rewrite to gtk3 was specifically to enable such forward looking progress.

What they did in the 3.0 release was, largely, a massive modernization of a dinosaur code base.

Now that it’s done it makes sense to do a UI overhaul. Before 3.0 it made no sense to even try, now it does.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 0 points 53 minutes ago

Why not? Krita did it, they made an entirely new interface (hell they did it over 10 years ago) so why does the GIMP teams refuse to do the same?

[–] _____@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

they could have just called gims or gum

naming stuff is important