ed <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:18:31 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> ____/ ed on Sunday 29 July 2007 17:03 : \____
>>
>> > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:26:45 +0100
>> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> GIMP’s major UI revamp
>> >>
>> >> ,----[ Quote ]
>> >> | GIMP is well known as a powerful application, and especially in
>> >> the last few | years has gained a rather large community of users.
>> >> There’s also a large | group of people for whom GIMP would be their
>> >> tool of choice, if it had the | same kind of attention to user
>> >> interface as Inkscape, GNOME, Firefox and | other modern Open
>> >> Source apps. `----
>> >>
>> >> http://www.venturecake.com/gimps-major-ui-revamp/
>> >
>> > Really don't like this. All the windows in one place, that's
>> > fugly.
>>
>> Yes, that's what I said in Digg. Lost versatility and power. No
>> virtual desktop and a total mess if you want to have multiple
>> applications in sight, e.g. working on a 32x32 pixel image while at
>> the same time watching a preview of a Web page it belongs to. It
>> seems like the GIMP is being pulled into the Win95 mentality.
None of this is prevented. More lies.
>
> Sadly I think the GIMP team are facing a lot of users who want to see
> GIMP look like Photoshop, just like a lot of people expect OOorg to
> look like MS Office *shudders*...
>
> To me, this is diabolical. No one wants to have a single application
Did you *read* the fucking article?
> take up the whole of the screen, thats why WM's come with shaders, so
shaders??!?!?!?
> we can move it out the way... but the moment we do that with the GIMP
> window, it takes everything else with it too. Using lists of windows is
> just a pin in the ass, you need that open all the time in order for it
> to be useful, and often, it's just not the way that one thinks, "hey i
> want to move the window with Untitled 12 in the name... ok - now I have
> to find that in the list of window titles...", I call that a total user
> interface bug.
The Gimp interface is totally non standard and has been a thorn in its
acceptance for a long time. The developers have listened. You two
clearly have no idea about why they listened and how they intend to
address the issues.
"meets my needs" is not a stance taken by responsible developers.
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