Man, I'm having trouble understanding the layout of this website and forums, as well as the design philosophy behind GIMP user interface. For starters, on the home page its hard to tell what the content is when so much of it looks like advertisements. Then, on the forums, only bits and pieces of them are shown. I don't see any display of the overall listing of posts and responses as we get with other forums. Although I found a longer list of just post topics, most of them were labled as awaiting moderator approval. Not much help.
Even in making this post, I got confused at the lack of a "post" button. Instead, there is a captcha box that looks like an ad directly above a real ad that has TWO captcha words in it. Which one am I to use? Took me 4 tries to get it right, not knowing whether they were case sensitive. Then, outside the box, in tiny letters is a button "create discussion," What I am saying is that it is so radically different that I find it very hard to use. There must be some point behind the design of layout, but I'm not getting it. Like GIMP itself, I don't understand why the developers would want to create something so different from what we are familiar with, and have invested huge amounts of time learning, so that to use GIMP we now have to relearn everything we thought we knew. This situation is really giving me second thoughts about whether I want to go through with this steep re-education curve unless there is some great benefit here that I fail to understand. While I appreciate the huge voluntary effort that made in creating a free app, and it is not my intention to take anything away from that, I just can't comprehend why it was done the way it was. It seems to me its radical differences won't do much to attract new users. -- Boxman (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
