• XNX@slrpnk.net
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    8 hours ago

    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

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      5 hours ago

      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.

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        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.

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      8 hours ago

      they could have just called gims or gum

      naming stuff is important