Re:GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
by nkkollaw on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:38AM
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> With that logic, you can argue against any debugging facility in software. Log files? Only developers think those are cool, useless!
Log files aren't user-facing. A performance meter in an image editing program is completely useless to 99% of its users.
Re:GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
by detaro on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:45AM
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So performance tools are fine, as long as they are hard to find (=not user-facing)? And the percentage of users that would want them has to live with worse access to them to not scare the others with an extra menu entry?
Re:GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
by nkkollaw on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:27PM
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Yes.
The more commonly used features are, the more prominent they should be in the UI.
If not, the "Compose" or "Send" button in email clients should be as big as "view connection details" (to give you an example).
That's how you reduce clutter. GIMP does that horribly, so they should probably _remove_ something, not add.
Re:GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
by prokoudine on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:09PM
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The Dashboard dock is user-facing only if the user chooses is to be user-facing.
Come on, get a grip on yourself.
FWIW, I have missed better tools for performance tweaking in competing (Adobe) products, so while I don't know if the one in GIMP would be useful, I can see why one would want something like it even as an end user.