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@deutrino GIMP will never get fixed. The people who use it are people who love steep learning curves, they won't ever perceive the issue.

They don't realise steep learning curves are huge lifetime black holes. "Everything is free if your time has no value" it's the open source mantra.

I'm 100% against it. Open source should be from the outset funded. You can defend open source and ensure it gets paid. You can even check directly with the devs and ask how their funding is going and donate accordingly.

Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸

@maikel@vmst.io · last month

@deutrino to fix GIMP even with funding, you need to undo everyone's work in way too many complex tools and redesign them with a UX person in charge.

That won't ever sit well with the project devs. And I get why.

And without them, the UX expert won't have a team to do anything, it's still an open source project.

So what Gnome needs is a new photo editing tool done from scratch, with a UX person leading it, then the GIMP time can be slowly transitioned, not forced, into it. If they feel like it.

deutrino

@deutrino@mstdn.io · last month

@maikel unfortunately it's a big enough project to write one that candidates are few and far between. a lot of people seem impressed with Photopea lately, but it's proprietary, and I completely understand why somebody with the ability to develop that complex an application that fast might choose not to go the free software route.

also, enough people have learned Gimp's horrible workflows now that changing it substantially would inevitably lead to a fork.

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