Re: GIMP and Photoshop user interfaces

On 2025-06-03, John Ames wrote:

(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 - but I'd have to go back to check and make sure
that they didn't finally do something at least marginally saner since I
last looked.)

Chronologically, what's out of place here is the main-window having a
menu, or there even being a main window. This is the way GIMP used to
work.

But yeah, that now looks a bit more confusing to me, because of there
being the two approaches. Someday I should sit down and read through
documentation to see if I'm missing something about the new UI design.

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Nuno Silva