Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp

[Daniel Hauck <daniel yacg com>]

That's okay, the GiMP will get by without you.  But you're right about 
many things.  Among these is that it is written, maintained and directed 
by tech people with the notion that they are taking on the big boys and 
that they have a "professional workflow" in mind as they continue to 
develop. One problem, though, as they have demonstrated time and time 
again, GiMP does not take complaints or suggestions.

This is where they completely miss the "professional" goal.  Users and 
customers are considered to be valuable in the professional world and it 
doesn't matter if the software is free or not.

For what it's worth, I personally find GiMP easier than Photoshop.  But 
then again, I started on GiMP and Inkscape before trying Photoshop and 
Illustrator.  "Easy and Intuitive" has a lot to do with where you 
started.  I started with those for graphics and in a larger sense, I 
started with *NIX before Linux was ever announced and never used GUIs 
until much later in the game and followed the principles and ideals of 
effective GUI design closely since then.  GiMP breaks some of those 
rules but, as you might guess, they ignore complaints and suggestions.  
They keep using words like professional and workflow but I don't think 
they mean what they think they mean.

Be cautioned: there are a fair number of cheerleaders out there, and 
they aren't hard to spot.

Enjoy your experiences with Photoshop.  I've never used wine in that way 
before and I've heard it has really matured.  It has gotten me thinking 
that perhaps the best way for me to get the latest GiMP to work on the 
latest CentOS is to use wine and GiMP for Windows.  I can't get it 
working terribly well under CentOS because of GTK compatibility issues.  
(I have recently learned this introduction of DLL hell was intentionally 
created in order to kill GNOME2.  Taking a page from Microsoft's 
playbook?  I guess they missed the part where such tactics are largely 
why people HATE MICROSOFT.)

On 03/13/2014 12:15 PM, Full Name wrote:
> You know... I just wanted to express my concern of Gimp and if you're not the right person than pass it on.
>
> I have been using Linux since 1999 and have used Gimp for many years now and I am at the point of
> discontinuing the use of it.
>
> First I will give a positive... It's about time Gimp has been made into a ONE-WINDOW application!!!
> Took you people long enough. I have always loved the EASE of gimp in the beginning all the way up
> until about version 2.0 - after that, it started going down hill.
>
> This program used to be easy to work with and was somewhat user-friendly. Today on the other hand, it is
> FAR from being user-friendly. But I am sure you people have not one clue of this as you continue down
> that path. I have SEVERAL friends on Linux including family members as I have set most of them up on
> Netrunner-OS and Zorin. NO ONE I have gotten into Linux, likes your Gimp program. Today, I myself am
> having a hard time figuring out Gimp... because it gets completely changed with each new release!! I
> have BETTER things to do than to RE-LEARN a program with every new release.
>
> Anyone can tell that Gimp is created by the techie programmers FOR the techie programmers because
> anyone I have introduced this program to recently has quickly found that it is a piece of worthless, UN-
> user friendly Crap and have decided to uninstall it from their computers for good. Things that should
> be very easy to implement are either hidden for some ridiculous reason or you programmers simply
> have no freaking clue what the hell it is you’re doing!! Just because you can program, doesn't make you
> any more smart than anyone else. Because it is obvious you have no idea what it take TO design a
> program for the people.
>
> Whatever...
> Now I am having to install Photoshop on all computers using wine and thanks to YOU, it has caused me
> a great deal of work. As I am a big supporter of open source software amongst my group of friends and
> family... plus those I newly meet... most seem to want to go back to the spy-wares like MicroTrash and
> Crapple and I find it a task to keep them all on Linux. YOU however,... make my job SO MUCH harder!!!
>
> Just wanted to THANK YOU for being true morons who happen to eat, sleep and shit behind your
> computers to create garbage that makes my life all that much harder. THANKS SO MUCH ~ NOT!!!
>
> Have a nice day~
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