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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by bzzzt on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:00AM (#46825155)
> This is such a weird trope.

No, it isn't. Lots of non-trivial OSS desktop applications are clearly made by people with no interest in aligning with expected desktop GUI behavior. From Gimp with dozens of windows to LibreOffice which is slow and has bad font rendering. And those are the 'poster apps' for FOSS desktops, lots of apps are worse.

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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by Moomoomoo309 on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:54AM (#46825898)
Gimp's single window mode was made the default years ago now, so that's not a great example anymore - there's scientific software that uses that paradigm that might work better, but most of that isn't OSS. Also, Libreoffice being slow and having bad font rendering seems pretty inline with Word nowadays...
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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by pests on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:46PM (#46827428)
> Gimp's single window mode was made the default years ago now

Good to hear. I use GIMP pretty seldomly and that was always the first menu option I had to hunt down.

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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by savolai on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:42AM (#46825729)
Gimp may be a bitnof a bad example nowadays? Of course depends on your habits and standards.
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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by TheBicPen on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:56PM (#46827588)
The best way to draw a circle in gimp is still the awkward select -> foreground fill workflow. At this point this example is beating a dead horse, but the horse shall continue to be beaten until a proper ellipse tool is added.
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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by wizzwizz4 on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:38PM (#46830944)
I select, delete, flood fill. Three steps, but afaik it's quicker.
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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by HappMacDonald on Friday January 30, 2026 @08:45PM (#46832487)
Instructions unclear. I've kidnapped the GIMP and Inkscape teams and forced them to blend their work into one product.

It now has an ellipse tool, but finding it among the toolbars and menus is left as an exercise for the reader

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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by erikbye on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:41PM (#46830302)
Compared to Microsoft Office suite, Libre suite is definitely not slow.
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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by bzzzt on Saturday January 31, 2026 @08:31AM (#46836522)
Depends on your system. A few years ago I ran it on a MacBook where scrolling on an empty page took ages. Seems nobody tried it out on a Mac before releasing the port since it was totally unusable. Hopefully it's fixed now, but I wouldn't recommend a piece of software I don't trust to anyone.
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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by user____name on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:13AM (#46837904)
Last time I tried (admittedly two years ago), it was incredibly sluggish, several times more so than MS Office, which is also sluggish in general.
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Re:Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development F... by throw10920 on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:21PM (#46955369)
Amusingly enough, the only OSS desktop applications with good UIs got them by shamelessly stealing from commercial software that had actual paid engineers and UI/UX researchers.

OSS's UI is subsidized by commercial software.

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