Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-12-29 06:44, D wrote:

  On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Farley Flud wrote:
 

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:47:29 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    I agree that the GIMPs GUI can be hard to navigate
   and use sometimes.
 

 I cannot understand this at all.
 An image is opened.  The user then decides what to do with the
image. He then uses the menu to invoke the appropriate action.
What could be simpler?
 As with most GUIs, there are more than one way to invoke actions.
Either use the menu or the many toolboxes.
 Of course, if a user does not understand the rudiments of image
processing then he will be confused and frustrated by any GUI.

 Also don't underestimate the power of habit. If you are used to photoshop, moving to something else will be painful.
 But if you have no prior experience, it will be different.
 My father has been a happy gimp user for many years, and he is 73. No problem with the gui. The only thing he is sensitive to is if they make changes or move buttons around. But all software makers enjoy doing that.

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My father is going to turn 80 last year and happily used Linux Mint until he deided to buy himself a new mini desktop with Windows 10 on it. If anything, he preferred Mint and asked me whether there was a way to implement some of its functionality onto the desktop like the way that it imports photos and videos from a phone. I didn't bother to install it on his new machine though.

That's a shame. If I would be there I would gladly install mint for him, to at least have one less windows machine in the world. ;)