GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

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Post by ATsch » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 11:06 PM UTC

nkkollaw wrote: post #109

ATsch wrote: post #39

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Note: you are likely being downvoted not for what you said, but for saying you will get downvoted. It's a frequent enough thing that it gets mentioned in the HN guidelines, last I checked.

Ah, cool--I didn't know that. In this case however I think it's more open source fanboys no-matter-what downvoting, because I dared criticize an open source project made by poor volunteers that work on it on their free time, and if you say they are not getting something you're entitled and you should go fork it and do it yourself. That's my impression, anyway.

I don't think this is accurate. If you look at other comments here, you will see some of them criticizing free and open source software and being highly upvoted.

Re: GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

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Post by qwerty456127 » Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 2:30 AM UTC

slantyyz wrote: post #169

qwerty456127 wrote: post #161

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I have never seen any picture editor, free or non-free that I (not a graphics professional, just a webmaster) would enjoy using nearly as much as I enjoy using Paint.NET. Photoshop looks notably more stylish (Paint.NET looks great too, GIMP looks mediocre from the aesthetical point of view) and feels a little bit more intuitive than GIMP yet still very hard to use until you spend days-weeks-months studying it and gai…

I am not a graphics professional either, and in the past couple of years, I've started to dislike Paint.NET a lot (I was a huge fan in the early days). These are, off the top of my head, what I consider to better than Paint.NET: Mac - Acorn, Pixelmator, Affinity Photo Windows - Affinity Photo If you're just doing simple edits en masse to images (crops and simple adjustments), then I would bypass an app like Paint.NET…

Thank you for the recommendations, I'll evaluate these.

Re: GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

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Post by davidy123 » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 2:22 PM UTC

prokoudine wrote: post #129

davidy123 wrote: post #36

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Close to a decade ago. But I haven't noticed any usability improvements. I feel like the time spent with GIMP was time wasted compared to other software where I could easily get what I needed done yet progressively gained aptitude for productivity and creativity. vim for example supports this. This is not to completely slam GIMP, it can be fine for software to demand users learn it deeply before doing simple things (…

"Close to a decade ago." We started working with Peter Sikking, professional UX architect, around 2006. He departed three years ago or so. That puts your claim roughly in the time when Pete was extremely active and wrote several functional specs that were implemented to make UI better. Now tell me, do you feel like you remember 10 years old stuff correctly after several beers?

Yes, I remember it very well, and it's been reinforced nicely by other comments. It does seem GIMP developers have their own idea of reality. Congratulations on having the most heralded open source graphics editor, by the way.

Re: GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

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Post by salamandar » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 3:26 PM UTC

floatboth wrote: post #113

bhaavan wrote: post #3

So still no GTK3? I think when GTK4 is released in a few months, it would be a good time to move to GTK3 as they can still be outdated. I know I am being a bit bitter for an open source project with less funding, but GIMP was supposed to be a poster boy GTK application in the first place.

There is a gtk3 dev branch: https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/tree/gtk3-port-meson — and it actually does work :)

Glad it works on someone else's computer (i'm the branch author). Actually https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/tree/gtk3-port may be more up to date as I'm just manually backporting to the meson port.