> A previous major version's UI has relevance to a future major version's UI???
Yes, of course.
Re:Gimp 2.10.12
by soulofmischief on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:11PM
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It's understandable that you should generally keep the UI the same between releases, it shouldn't be changing every release.
But at some point in a 20-year development cycle you might want to switch things up, and a major release is the time to do it.
I don't think anyone had a legitimate complaint when Blender completely revamped their UI a few years ago. It was objectively better, and "it's different than what I'm used to" was not a valid complaint.
Most programs aren't image editors which can export in a variety of formats as well as save in a native, preserving format. How Microsoft Word works has literally nothing to do with how GIMP works.
> GIMP copied the Photoshop Save workflow mistake
Tens of hours of work done on accident?
> despite it being the minority position
Photoshop a minority??
> despite GIMP's own history of the UI for that feature
A previous major version's UI has relevance to a future major version's UI???
> despite it being the minority position
Who is paying for these studies????