One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

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[–] kadu@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I wish GIMP had a full UI redesign like Blender, it could work as a Photoshop replacement for many use cases but... Jesus it's non intuitive, flawed and it mixes opposing design principles all the time.

There was a project that renamed it to a less controversial name and updated the UI to more closely resemble modern photo manipulation tools, but they've stopped working on it before a major release.

EDIT: There's PhotoGIMP by Diolinux, a Brazilian Linux YouTube channel with a really nice host. This is a set of plugins and configuration files that try to ease the transition from Photoshop to GIMP for newcomers. It's certainly good, but as an add-on, it can't actually fix all issues with GIMP.

[–] lloram239@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Gimp's problem is not so much the UI, but that it has fallen way behind Photoshop in terms of features. Fixing up the UI wouldn't hurt, but you'd still be stuck with a graphics app that's 20 years behind the competition. It would need a heck of a lot more work to catch up.

[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You're thinking of Glimpse o believe. And yes gimp really needs a change. Krita isn't bad but not good for more graphic design oriented tasks. It's type tools are awful.