Re: GIMP and Photoshop user interfaces

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 08:42:03 -0700, John Ames wrote:
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To cite one convenient example, the designers clearly have no idea what
the point is of keyboard accelerators in menus & dialogs; they'll often
assign the same accelerator key to multiple controls on the same
window ...

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I fired up GIMP 3 and had a quick look round at several dialogs. I simply
could not find any examples of what you’re talking about.
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(I'd also cite, as another example, that they have no idea what the
point of context menus is, either - right-clicking in the document
window brings up a *whole entire copy* of the main-window menu tree
hanging off the mouse pointer, which is utterly bonkers from a usability
standpoint ...

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It does still take advantage of Fitts’ Law though, doesn’t it. Is there
some other point to context menus?

I use GIMP a lot. If I need to do something new to me, I just goo-goo
for the answer.

Tools with a lot of functionality take some time to learn.

    <https://www.amazon.com/Book-GIMP-Complete-Nearly-Everything/dp/1593273835>

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