Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP UI quality opinion

[Aleksey Midenkov <midenok gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:13 PM, wwp <subscript free fr> wrote:
> Hello Aleksey,
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:03:11 +0400 Aleksey Midenkov <midenok gmail com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine
>> <alexandre prokoudine gmail com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
>> >
>> >>> Ambitious and professional users (the desired audience for GIMP) tend to
>> >>> learn shortcuts for the very frequent commands. To then have toolbar icons
>> >>> for them is just a waste of space.
>> >>
>> >> Yes, I see how you treat people who uses your software. Just normal
>> >> people, who have their opinion and have the right to speak it.
>> >
>> > Expressing opinions and insulting are two different things.
>> >
>> >> people. That's says everything! You direct to some logs saying 'read
>> >> what we did'! But I don't need read it.
>> >
>> > Not "need". The right word is "must". You must study the subject
>> > before making an accusation.
>>
>> No, I don't. I am not satisfied. That is the true! It is even not an
>> accusation. I don't compel anyone to do something. Just want that you
>> know this. I am client, you are service. You serve to people by doing
>> this job. That is your primary goal. If no, then talk is over.
>
> I'm afraid it's not really a client/server relation and IMO you're a
> bit wrong with that assertion. It's more a server/user, and the service
> is free. The user in that case is free to use or not, there's no
> commercial contract between the user and the server/service. I don't
> think there's even a moral obligation for the server to accept any kind
> of criticism or request. You would contribute with sponsoring and
> donations, I would be the same. After that, it depends on people, both
> on server and user bases. According to the project team, it's often
> very different. And user requests are always taken into account
> differently, but this also depends on the user himself and the way he
> submit requests or feedback. Of course my words are mine (I'm a both a
> user and developer free and open-source software), I'm not talking in
> the name of the Gimp team.

I understand your opinion. It depicts the real world we living in.
Everyone is free to choose its own ideology. But we virtually (with
more or less precision) may divide them (us free programmers) in two
groups: (1) these who does his job for himself and shares his work to
others and (2) these who does his job for others and by this deed
acquires his needs. Every beginning project should start from group 1
(otherwise they will not survive). And when they become mature they
should gradually migrate to group 2. If this is not happening then we
may call it 'infantilism'.