Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
"Desktop Linux is almost soup. We only have a few items left on the short list. Will we do it? If history is an indicator, the answer is yes." Read this article at LXer. Read more for a short list of my personal needs before I could say "yes, I can switch to Linux or FreeBSD full time".
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I agree with those who are saying the Gimp interface has greatly improved in the 2.x version, but I do also think it needs more work.
I think they would do well to imitate existing commercial apps more closely: Photoshop, PSP, even fireworks. For one thing, the way the menu system is on the pallet, attached to the individual file, and it's the right-click context menu when you click on the image-- well, it's just a little silly.
Plus, there aren't simple things, like having selections snap to the edges of the picture when you're moving them. I don't know. It's not that it's ugly, it just seems harder to get it to do what you want.
For those who say "You're just not used to it..." well, I can go between PSP, Photoshop, and Fireworks without a problem, so why am I so unused to gimp? And I'm just doing editing for web pages.
Sometimes, if the way your program works is different without being substantially better, you may was well drop it for the sake of being conventional. Being annoying to professional graphic artists and web-developers is a problem. Gimp doesn't even look/work like other gnome/kde applications. The lack of coninuity alone should be enough reason to change its interface.