Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Gimp for casual users

[Andreas Lemke <OpenSauce arcor de>]

I will remain silent about most of what you write except one point:

Am 29.07.2012 13:39, schrieb peter sikking:
> and that test has to be an ease-of-use test, not an ease-of- learning 
> one. I do discuss this difference with usability folks (like when 
> Tobias Ehni got in touch with me) and they see the point, and the 
> challenges.

Clearly, there is a difference. (and it should be interesting to dig 
into that deeper.)

I would be interested in getting the sentiment of the Gimp community on 
this statement. Does it mean to imply that ease-of-learning is not 
important for the "target user community"?  If so then, wouldn't it be 
better to just offer keyboard shortcuts and CLIs and ditch all the wimpy 
menus, palettes, dialog boxes that mainly are there for ease-of-learning 
- or, as I like to call it: reducing the need to learn. We could save a 
lot of screen realestate, and keyboard shortcuts are faster than 
point-and-click anyway.

No, learnability is a key quality criteria for any program. Best 
practices describe how this can be achieved. Sometimes there are 
trade-offs, but we should make these trade-offs only if all else fails.

Regards