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To all of the authors below who have disparaging opinions on the UX/UI experience and or the download ability. It’s a volunteer project for a reason. If you have such grand ideas and abilities put your money where your fingers are and fucking sign up.
A lot of the hate GIMP gets is people coming from Photoshop expecting it to work like Photoshop. In fact that's true for a lot of Adobe-like open source projects. That's why "industry standards" are dangerous and really only exist to keep one company rich.
My hate comes from wanting it to work like LView Pro. There's no Linux image manipulation program that comes close to meeting the standard they set in 2001.
I think I remember that app? I’m going to have to go look that up. It’s shocking what one forgets in a quarter of a century.
So true for all FOSS projects, the more successful they become the more new users expect a customer service dept.
Money link donate now you!
It’s been tried. The gatekeeping of GIMP’s monstrously horrific UI/UX is both vicious and impenetrable.
God forbid people offer feedback.
Helpful Feedback is fine. As the OP said there is no need for disparaging feedback.
Declaring that the only legitimate feedback comes from people who are also capable of doing the work is not a good way to solicit constructive feedback.
No one said that though.
Just scroll up.
Right, and the initial sentence
modifies the rest of the text
Point being, feedback is welcome, disparaging opinions are not.
Nobody declared that "only legitimate feedback comes from people who are also capable of doing the work."
Reading comprehension, my friend.
Hmm. So doubling down then.
...uh...likewise?
I point out to you how you're mistaken, and you just go, "nuh uh."
Cool...
I understand you don’t feel understood. Perhaps you are not communicating as effectively as you believe you are.
I get it. You made a mistake, are embarrassed, and are now pointing things back on the messenger instead of just saying, "Oh shit, my bad," and moving on with your life.
Have a nice day, man. Riveting conversation.