@neauoire @lritter I consider Gimp completely unusable. Everything about it is surprising. I hated it in 2001 and I hate it now and many things I hated in 2001 are unchanged. Krita, though I like Krita, is not an adequate replacement, as it does different things. The fact I must use Gimp to do simple image editing is the main thing preventing me from using Linux as a daily driver.
This may be a taste matter, but I am very far from alone in this.
@mcc @neauoire @lritter I can manage to do simple crop/scale/cleanup stuff with it, but otherwise, no, I think GIMP is, at best clunky.
I've watched serious artist and designer folks use Photoshop and other tools and it's pretty obvious that there's an enormous feature and usability gap.
I wish there was something out there getting the kind of development that Blender has seen in recent years. It is possible to have open tools that are highly competitive with commercial offerings.
@lritter @mcc @neauoire UI and UX is a place where a lot of open source efforts fall short.
Many projects (and developers) are not willing to or interested in listening to folks who have contributions to make besides writing code.
That last 10% of polish that makes so much difference tends to be a *lot* of work and not a lot of fun and it's often hard to find folks willing to commit to that work for a hobby or spare-time project.
@lritter @swetland @mcc @neauoire
I wouldn’t:
“any projects (and developers) are not willing to or interested in listening to folks who have contributions to make besides writing code.
That last 10% of polish that makes so much difference tends to be a *lot* of work and not a lot of fun and it's often hard to find folks willing to commit to that work for a hobby or spare-time project.”
If the last 10% of polish is much work, and not fun, then is the problem the unwillingness of devs to listen to non-coders, or is it the amount of extra, not-fun coding that needs to be done? Or both?
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This reminds me, in one of his #YouTube videos for #SuperCollider (an open-source electronic music program with a very good UI) Eli FieldStein says there are ways people can contribute to the project besides coding.
@spradlig @swetland @mcc @neauoire why would you want to avoid writing code? ;)