Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
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Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
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Re: Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
#2GIMP is still a Gtk2 program.
Re: Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
#3If Blender could radically update their UI and UX after 25 years of the initial conception, I feel like any (FOSS) project could do it too, no matter how many options and technical details the software has.
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#4GIMP is still a Gtk2 program.
It's still ironic to me that the program that GTK was made for and that popularized the toolkit, haven't managed to move to its latest version yet.
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#5> [Search] kinda works when you generally know what you need or how a feature you want could be called
I mean, that's how I feel using the GIMP menus. I never know where anything is, and my first guess is usually wrong.
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#6GIMP is still a Gtk2 program.
It's still ironic to me that the program that GTK was made for and that popularized the toolkit, haven't managed to move to its latest version yet.
Gtk3 and Gtk4 have been ...well, gimped, and don't have many features. They've been removed in Gtk3/4 by GNOME developers because their DE does not prioritize things like keyboard entry (as compared to mouse use, see gtkfilechooserwidget.c in gtk3/4 not supporting keyboard based pasting of file paths without errors, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5872). Gtk2 hasn't fallen victim to this slow erosion of functionality.
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#7Excuses abound. "There are too many features" So? Do the work. Organize them. "GTK doesn't have xxx, doesn't allow yyy, we have to wait until GTK 5 comes out..." No? Just do the work. Add those features to GTK itself or find a workaround.
Open-source is built one patch at a time, so a big rewrite can never happen. But what's worse, to me, is that people build up this cognitive dissonance that it's some framework's fault that it doesn't have the right dropdown widget yet.
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#8I will forever be against weird “hidden” menus and even more against the idiotic replacing of clear, obvious text based menuing with bullshit, stupid, mentally handicapped “just memorize what our developers decided these images mean lol Hurr durr”.
Absolutely hate this redesign.
The correct response to a “too small viewport” for anyone serious is to buy a better monitor with a larger resolution, not to redesign menus in to bullshit obscurity.
Re: Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
#9GIMP is still a Gtk2 program.
But, haven't the gimp team been working on refactoring/modularization of all of the tools? I think this is part of an effort to modernize. I haven't been keeping up with it but I think I read this several years ago. They stated in 2018 "GIMP 3.0 will be relying on GTK3, a much newer version of the toolkit." not sure if that ever happened?
Re: Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
#10The one thing I can say is that fuzzy search like IntelliJ is a really good interface for experienced workflow. Maybe an AI fuzzy search would help with discoverability.