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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: GIMP and Photoshop user interfaces
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 23:46:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 08:54:54 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> Either way you slice it, it's weird and superfluous ...

I don’t think so. The menus at the top are readily visible and 
discoverable, for those who need cues to click on something. But some have 
right-click muscle memory, so the alternative mechanism caters for them.

This is all basic UI 101 stuff. Or should be, nowadays.

You are not the only one complaining that GIMP isn’t exactly a 100% drop-
in replacement for Photoshop, some kind of “I Can’t Believe It’s Not 
Photoshop” that you can simply switch in without users even noticing. It 
was never intended to be that way, and it never will. Its developers -- 
and more importantly, its community -- will always have different ideas 
about how to do things.