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the developers of other foss software aren't idiots waiting for someone to tweet "have you tried making good ux?" at them — they just don't have the resources to hire ux designers and do user studies and whatever else because they are giving their fucking work to you for free

Then the uncomfortable question is why the GIMP didn't have similar success in attracting funding, despite being around longer than Krita.

The anger at the GIMP is a bit overblown, but at the same time, someone saying that it's a easy drop in replacement for... any other paint program, welp. That's an easy person to dunk on.

blender was able to make things more user friendly when they got a shitload of money from companies realizing sponsoring development was still cheaper than paying autodesk

Blender used to have a 'user friendy' fork as well. The existance of these sorts of mods or forks for a piece of software is kinda a bad thing.

YES it's frustrating to build something in your spare time that you freely allow others to use and they go out of their way to say how terrible and traumatizing it is because it needs some adjustments. Either offer graciously to help with the adjustments or leave the developers alone

Don't even get me started on people saying you can't just post on Mastodon. I get that it's different, I get there's a learning curve, but some ppl genuinely act like up is down and left is right. Idek how they manage to struggle so much.

Oh it’s definitely something I’ve thought about lot about, but have continued to come up empty, a lot.

it takes so much effort to go from programmer (you write scripts and apps) to foss programmer (you are good at VCS systems, common foss workflows e.g. PR submission, review, culture, and great at communicating asynchronously). I think we underestimate the expertise required to participate by a lot

My only issue with it is there's like... a lot of buttons and options, and it's overall very different out of the box to what I've already used for years, so the learning ceiling is kinda high. I.E. a "me" problem! 👍

Like mate, its an open source project made by a guy on his free time who got anoyed at tumblr Other people used their free time to improve it too, and someone was so annoyed at my design decisions that he made his own app for it. Wich now is available on appstore and fdroid too

im aware that there's probably a plugin that gets me like 90% there to the functionality in photoshop, but i still wish it was built-in so i didnt have to go plugin hunting

the non-adobe options are fairly slim even on windows last I checked

also complaining that it isn't perfect at parsing adobes proprietary undocumented format they change constantly as if that's anyone's fault but adobe's

I usually use any other tool, except at work where its only that or Krita, and sometimes I need to throw together graphics. That said, GIMPs color to opacity tool is literally the best out of any out there. It gives you a level of control no other application does.

Honestly even putting together a feedback sheet reaching out getting the ball rolling etc. would do good. It's public and open source! I'm sure they'd be down

i may not like using gimp but the story behind it and the work behind it genuinely make me respect it also open source = very good

they are doing internet jokes and did not actually create gimp

I think the problem is more that some people very vocally claim that the UI is actually fine and anyone who thinks otherwise is just too stupid

I know I'm an outlier here, but I prefer GIMP. It's loads more intuitive, to me, for my (non-professional) needs, than any of those other tools. Actually, I also used it briefly for some paid graphic design work with no problems.

i still crack it open regularly yeah. krita is much smoother for drawing but gimp is straightforward for just fuckin... well manipulating an image i guess

mm i love to be insistently told that my audio doesn't work by people who only have one linux joke. my heart goes out to everyone who has to hear "have you tried linux" like twice a year though