Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request to GIMP

[Boudewijn Rempt <boud valdyas org>]

On Wednesday 17 April 2013 Apr 01:14:39 Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 18:08 -0400, Arwa Hamid wrote:
>
> >   To enhance the usability, when the user starts
> > the software, I suggest the following, a box can be popped up asking if he wants
> > to create a new image or open an existing image and response directly instead of
> > the user pressing on file, then press on create or open.
>
> Krita does this, iirc.

Yeah... And it gives us no end of complaints, too. It seems that about half of the people I talk to love it, 
the other half hates it. We have had one usability study done at a Finnish university that concluded that 
it's no big problem, but also no advantage at all.

> MyPaint I think gives you a blank canvas.
>
> It might be that when the gegl integration is a little further along
> GIMP will support unbounded canvases, and could reasonably just start
> with a blank canvas ready to draw. The out-of-the-box experience with
> GIMP is a little intimidating (although nowhere near as bad as Blender
> or gcc), but, GIMP isn't really a tool for the proverbial Aunt Tillie
> either...


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