Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

[gfxuser <gfx user online de>]

Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> 1)http://blog.mmiworks.net/2006/11/creating-user-scenarios-with-gimpteam.html
>
> "In the five days before this weekend, Ellen and Kamila had been
> gathering vital raw material by performing workplace observation. Half
> a dozen professionals in the field of photography and graphic design
> were interviewed and observed on the job. These participants had been
> selected based on the GIMP product vision."
>
> 2)http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/User_Scenarios
>
> 3)http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Interview_Partners
>
> Does it help?
Yes, thanks.
> Personally I don't expect every single job out there to be listed. CG
> industry seems to create a new kind of job every year, for instance.
I agree with you. I'm not in the CG industry, are you? To me it's 
sufficient and clearer to group them as Peter and his team already did.
> > Reading the product vision and the document 'GIMP 2.8 understanding UI
> > changes' I don't see a clear definition of that, but only two groups:
> > artists and scientists. Where are the non-professional artists and spare
> > time enthusiasts? I'm also missing a clearer definition of the expected
> > experience level. Only professionals seem to be addressed.
> > Are the other people not targeted? Clearing this as a part of the product
> > vision would be a big help to avoid misunderstandings.
> This would be tricky. People can use professional workflows and not be
> paid for the work they do.
In German we have the idiom of 'unprofitable art' and unfortunately this 
says a lot about payment for creatives for long ;-(  It's 
understandable, that they'd like to have an affordable tool. I'd like to 
point out, that I don't see the less professional users targeted, like 
spare time enthusiasts They are appearantly a big part of the GIMP 
community, too. Like badly payed creatives not everybody of them can 
afford buying or renting an expensive commercial product. So I 
personally would regret if they are not targeted anymore.

IMHO many usability complaints are based on some ambiguities. Either the 
GIMP team didn't have a clear notion in the past who the users are and 
developed an allrounder, which became a hard to ride horse (I'm 
constructive-minded). Or otherwise the less professional users are not 
targeted and don't know about this - so they will feel targeted and of 
course feel overwhelmed by GIMP's complexity (To be fair: it's similar 
with Photoshop.) That's why I urge for clarifying this in the product 
vision.

Why is painting from scratch not a top level part of the product vision? 
Are we going to miss someone? AFAIK there are already many other 
(semi-)professional affordable photo tools for Linux (RawTherapee, 
Darktable, Digikam, Photivo?, AfterShot, Lightzone etc.) but there seem 
to be much less high-end painting apps (MyPaint, Krita?, Pinta?). 
Wouldn't there be a disbalance? Alexia, where are you  ;-) ?

Best regards,

grafxuser