Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Ahlstrom Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:33:42 -0500 Organization: None Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <1814c96a2531ed89$71164$2566989$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <20241226105710.000038df@gmail.com> Reply-To: OFeem1987@teleworm.us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:33:43 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d5af6e073ac7ea1369b5090b387baa14"; logging-data="3938563"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+j9Uku0yPHlxyxVEzJRe0n" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pR+yNnLFM4Nj/y7mTV1jXArZdMs= X-Face: 63n<76,LYJQ2m#'5YL#.T95xqyPiG`ffIP70tN+j"(&@6(4l\7uL)2+/-r0)/9SjZ`qw= Njn mr93Xrerx}aQG-Ap5IHn"xe;`5:pp"$RH>Kx_ngWw%c\+6qSg!q"41n2[.N/;Pu6q8?+Poz~e A9? $6_R7cm.l!s8]yfv7x+-FYQ|/k X-Slrn: Why use anything else? X-User-Agent: Microsoft Outl00k, Usenet K00k Editions X-Mutt: The most widely-used MUA Bytes: 3024 rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:59:15 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > >> rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code: >> >>> On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:45:44 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>>> So, is it an actual “clone” of the Photoshop UI or not? If it is >>>> identical to the Photoshop UI, then it would be just as “clunky and >>>> awkward” as Photoshop. >>> >>> I've never used PhotoShop but I consider GIMP an excellent example of >>> how not to do it. The latest I have is 2.10 on Debian; I don't know if >>> 3 is any better. >> >> Meh. One gets used to a product.... or moves on. > > I never used GIMP enough to get used to it. The use case: I've scraped > some SVG icons that I need to lightly edit; I do not have PhotoShop but I > do have GIMP on the Linux box. I start GIMP and find something that wants > to spawn windows like mold spores reproducing in a Petri dish. I think Inkscape is better for SVG. Even a big Windows .NET programmer type at work would use it to create his icons and logos. > GIMP certainly wasn't the only application to take that approach. There > was a period where you had to have dialogs you could tear off and let > float around or dock at various points. Thankfully it seems to have > passed. Edit / Preferences. E.g. I just turned off Tool Groups because I like to see the whole toolbox at once. -- I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon. -- Larry Wall in <199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org>