Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2025-01-03 07:11, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

On 2025-01-02 21:06, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2025-01-02 14:42, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 08:36:41 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
 

I find GNOME rather clunky whereas KDE, at least on Fedora and Nobara,
is perfect out of the box. I imagine that a lot of people who try out
Linux and face GNOME are going to wonder how to do the basics, and they
will likely find that the way extensions work is rather clunky,
especially during upgrades. Meanwhile, KDE is very familiar and offers a
ton of features they could only dream of in Windows like the desktop
effects, theming options and widgets. Unlike Cinnamon too, the widgets
in KDE actually work as they should.

 The Ubuntu box has GNOME. I live with it but I'm not a fan. I'd rather
have a menu structure rather than the 'Show Applications' button that
brings up three or four screens of unsorted stuff.

 GNOME was designed with the belief that anyone looking for an
application will press the Windows key and then type the name of what
they're looking for rather than select it from a menu. That's how I do
it whether I use Windows, GNOME or KDE so I would agree with their
design choice.

 What if you are new and don't know the name of the applications?

 As time goes on, *some* will learn.

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No, most will. I agree that most people have the memory of a fruit fly, but I imagine that if they installed Linux in the first place, they're probably brighter.

Relating this problem to my 73 year old father, the way he handled it was to ask me. I showed him, and after that he was ok.
However!
What made it easy for him was that he used firefox for 90% of his computing on windows before, so he pulls up the search windows and enters f i r, and then presses enter.
Gimp took him longer to master though. I think firefox, thunar and gimp are the only three programs he ever uses. The rest happens when he double clicks on movies, images or mp3:s, so he does not need to open those programs by themselves.