On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 8:27 PM Ryan Stark wrote: > > I appreciate that the app is free open source and developers are working for > free but it seems they are cut off from most users.
What would you suggest to do that we don't already do? > Virtually every feature has some kind of usability bad design And you are welcome to report issues and propose specific changes. > and Gimp is not as stable and reliable as it used to be Yes, the side effect of releasing a huge amount of changes you've seen in 2.10 is less stability. > Most people are not going to bother going on mailing lists. There doesn't > seem to be any decent forum that everyone uses like there is for Blender as > in Blenderartists There is discuss.pixls.us. It's decent and everyone (but you?) uses it. I also regularly answer questions on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook etc. Places that noone uses :) > and there is no Gimp manual for the latest version. Yes. It's being worked on by a single person. Would you be interested to help Julien? > Gimp appears to be a jack of all trades and master of none so there is no > passionate community. That is quite the opposite of what I see. Darn, I have to stop some users from being too passionate :) > A sign of the problems is that on Linux we have Krita and Mypaint. If Gimp's > tools had been better for painting and manipulating things on the canvas we > would not have needed those apps. Krita is almost 20 years old. You might want revisiting your argument. MyPaint's development is, sadly, on the declining side. Personally, I hope that Briend will merge all his changes from 2017-2018 and stimulate a new, long overdue release. I don't think we as a community need just GIMP. I love what Martin et al. did with MyPaint, there absolutely is enough room for applications like MyPaint and Krita streamlined for particular demographics or use cases. > Most people edit photos in a RAW editors now so these more comprehensive 2D > image editors should not be centred around just editing photos. GIMP 2.10.x features MyPaint Brush tool, canvas rotating/flipping, and other painting-specific things. Some features like layer group masks are useful for a variety of use cases. Upcoming v2.10.10 is also featuring smart colorization for painters and comic artists, as well as a DDS plug-in for game designers. Alex _______________________________________________ gimp-web-list mailing list gimp-web-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list
