• directive0@lemmy.world
    59·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
      281·
      3 months ago

      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.

        • exhaust_fan@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 months ago

          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?)
          • tsugu@slrpnk.netEnglish
            51·
            3 months ago

            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@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 months ago

              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.

    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
      141·
      3 months ago

      It is? How so?

      Sorry for asking, I’ve used gimp forever, but I learned on photoshop. Its been a while since I switched, but I don’t remember having any real issues learning gimp

    • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
      7·
      3 months ago

      The thing is, it’s virtually useless for any real colour work, as it’s rotten from the core.

      So it needs:

      1. Completely overhauled UI
      2. New name
      3. Complete rewrite of the core from bottom up.

      I hate to say it, but it’s probably more efficient to start fresh.

      • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
        21·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, I learned to do what I need to do and if they ever change the UI now, I will forever be stuck with the version prior to that. I am NOT relearning the interface.