Re:Why is GIMP still so bad?
by andrewshadura on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:50AM
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Any examples please?
Eg. I was trying to teach someone about composition in photography using old laptops laying around with Linux/BSD installed, so, you agree, Gimp is first choice. At least 3 times it was young persons with Gimp trauma from school lessons. So, when I started launching Gimp they all showed disgust followed by disinterest on their faces and all tried to run away. It is really so bad !
So here you have it: Gimp in practice - disgust in users. When some teen/student needs some tool then there is pressure on parents to buy them real McCoy like Adobe Photoshop. I personally like Corel, box version.
And that disgust is well deserved just at Gimp launch time - you are welcomed with multiple uncoherent windows, try to switch between them. Then try to find basic tool like "curves" - hidden in some not really intuitive place like eg. "Adjustment" menu.
Save picture ? You must discover some idiotic options about exporting. And that just 1 minute usage of that "gimp".
Yes, it do the work and even have better then 8 bits support but basic UI is trash.
Becouse it uses GNOME stuff ? GTK true abbrev don't mean anything for decades now.
Also Gimp is UNIVERSALLY hated by teens/kids who are forced to learn it in schools. Just finding anything in menu is so not intuitive (not like in Adobe/Corel) that is it plainly stupid. And that is not some high hanging fruit.