I can rarely say I hate using a piece of software but I really hate Gimp. 💢
Here's the thing; I can use #Photoshop like a pro with my eyes closed. I know all the keyboard shortcuts and understand what everything does.
Same with #Figma. And those skills are transferable to other apps. If I open #Sketch I can pretty much understand everything with ease, even though its not my daily driver.
Then I open #Gimp. And I understand nothing. Nothing works as I would expect. It's wild. 😵💫
@matt I had the same. I liked using photoshop (don't think I would now, fucking AI coming out the walls) but gimp felt like it was... Made out of Lego or something. In a bad way.
Gimp has always felt to me like "A design tool by developers for developers"
And I don't mean that in an insulting way to developers. Just that it feels like a FOSS project that the design community chose to ignore and so developers just did their best effort at making a design tool without any input from actual designers.
@matt The challenge of foss is that it attracts like minded people. If the gap that needs to be bridged is too wide, it's difficult or impossible to attract the people who would be able to bridge that gap.
It's not really a FOSS problem, but a volunteer problem (there are lots of people doing foss for a living)...
So a project like GIMP, which has struggled pretty hard with UX in my opinion, probably get mostly contributors from people who are *mostly* comfortable with the UX...
@matt We're trying to encourage more designers (and regular users) to give UX/UI feedback so we can make improvements.
If anyone wants to contribute (no code needed!), feel free to participate: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux/-/issues
@matt
Yeah, i feel quite a lot of FOSS have only programmers, no designers.
UX was a reason some of my friends chose bsky over masto for instance.
