When this got released I really expected someone in the opensource community to run with it, but as far as I know no one has. Back around 1990 a Graphic designer that had his office n the same building as my mom worked in let me copy his Photoshop 1.x disks and nothing has ever compared to it for me. When will we get the linux port of Photoshop 1.0? I would love to see how it develops.
I used to use GIMP as an example of OSS desktop applications having bad UX, I mean back around 2010 maybe. The UX felt plain horrible. Anything I every tried there was pain to achieve. And there was plethora of desktop applications having the same issue back then. "Geeks can't do UI".
I feel like that has changed? Even Blender felt good the last time I used it, Firefox became kinda fine, though these are probably bad examples as they are both mainstream software. But what about OSS that is used primarily by OSS enthusiasts? What about GIMP now?
When this got released I really expected someone in the opensource community to run with it, but as far as I know no one has. Back around 1990 a Graphic designer that had his office n the same building as my mom worked in let me copy his Photoshop 1.x disks and nothing has ever compared to it for me. When will we get the linux port of Photoshop 1.0? I would love to see how it develops.
Interesting little read. I always find it fascinating when old code holds up really well - especially structurally. Great trip down memory lane!
Gimp source code: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp
I used to use GIMP as an example of OSS desktop applications having bad UX, I mean back around 2010 maybe. The UX felt plain horrible. Anything I every tried there was pain to achieve. And there was plethora of desktop applications having the same issue back then. "Geeks can't do UI".
I feel like that has changed? Even Blender felt good the last time I used it, Firefox became kinda fine, though these are probably bad examples as they are both mainstream software. But what about OSS that is used primarily by OSS enthusiasts? What about GIMP now?
the funny thing with GIMP is: even while its a very powerful tool, it still lacks a good texting tool until today :-)
and having the source available didnt help so far either :-))
Can you detail what you mean by good texting tool? What features are missing?
for the downvoters:
could you please show me a good textting tool plugin for GIMP, then?
you can check their forums & other sites: the textingtools is on top of their discussion lists?
I don't see it at the top of the discussion on the forums I checked.
So can you expand why you think the text tool, is bad?
Honestly, I think it was just the smiley faces. I didn't downvote.
Nothing stops you from creating a PR :-)))
I would, if I would GIMP use often enough to have the motivation - I use GIMP maybe 2 - 3 times a year.
And thats the irony covered in my post: Even that the source is available didnt motivate someone enough so far to create better version of the built