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[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 3 points 40 minutes ago

Now do VLC 4.0 :D

[–] TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

To all of the authors below who have disparaging opinions on the UX/UI experience and or the download ability. It’s a volunteer project for a reason. If you have such grand ideas and abilities put your money where your fingers are and fucking sign up.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

Money link donate now you!

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

God forbid people offer feedback.

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Helpful Feedback is fine. As the OP said there is no need for disparaging feedback.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world -1 points 39 minutes ago

Declaring that the only legitimate feedback comes from people who are also capable of doing the work is not a good way to solicit constructive feedback.

[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 23 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Next. They should drop everything and solely focus on improving ux & ui . Every time I open gimp to try and get acclimated to it, I close it back out of frustration. Nothing is intuitive in that software. Not even the naming of the tools settings.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

To be honest, nothing is intuitive in any complex software. Every time I open Photoshop I want to cry in pain. But it isn't because Photoshop is bad (that I don't know actually), but because I am not familiar with it at all

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

It is essential that you explain exactly what you find unintuitive, otherwise -forgive me, but- this feedback is worthless. Make a bullet list, with captures, show how you would rename or rearrange things. Do your part !

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 0 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

forgive me, but- this feedback is worthless

Its not useless when literally 99% of the people who tried GIMP Over the past 25+ years have had the exact same reaction, pretending its not a thing its whats useless

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

i mean its pretty good if you get used to it.. i remember the shortcuts for all the major tools i use and it's very quick and easy to use for me.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

This is exactly the problem they face. I use GIMP since ~15years. Any change they make will annoy me to a degree. But I also understand that getting into the UI is not that easy. They somehow have to manage these two completly opposing interests.

[–] ManaOatbun@jlai.lu 43 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I opened it, changed brush, got a segmentation fault crash lmao

[–] iamkindasomeone@feddit.org 8 points 4 hours ago

It's always the user's fault. Why do think you could change the brush using an UI element!?

[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago

Isn't C just wonderful?

[–] Leeuk@feddit.uk 18 points 8 hours ago

Brilliant and huge congrats to the amazing people who worked on it. One silly question though, is the "new" Gimp logo supposed to look out of focus or are my eyes getting old?

[–] joshfaulkner@lemmy.world 33 points 9 hours ago
[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 70 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

zero screenshots on the announcement page and zero screenshots on the homepage. Exactly what i expect from gimp lol

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 28 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The UI looks the same lol

The layers are the big thing, but its hard to show because the final result looks the same anyways

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 36 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (6 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 8 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 4 hours ago

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

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[–] sfu@lemm.ee 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Not having non-destructive editing has kept me from using gimp. I tried but just couldn't use it. I'll have to try again.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

If it's non destructive now I might try to learn it.

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