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GIMP 3.0 Released (www.gimp.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I mean, I could make a list of things I think are problems, but I've been using it since a bit after 9/11 so I dont think my guesses would represent new user experiences. I am mostly going off what people tell me when they try to learn it.

otherwise it's hard to respond to such a vague statement

I wasn't writing advice for the devs, I was making a general statement about why foss stuff doesn't tend to suit glitzy, highly marketable front facing stuff, using gimp as an example

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not involved with Gimp development, I've been watching it from the side, so I can't tell if there's an actual lack of contributions related to UX design -but so far I have only seen the public respond with the same sort of vague feedback : "the UI needs work". Unfortunately that's as unhelpful as it gets. Spending some time designing interface mockups, or writing up descriptions of how such and such feature should work, now that's helpful, and is something pretty much any user can do.

    I was making a general statement about why foss stuff doesn’t tend to suit glitzy, highly marketable front facing stuff, using gimp as an example

    Yea, I believe that's true. And it is always a resource problem, because with limited resources, developers focus on making the thing work first, look nice second

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