Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-20 Thread Mikael Magnusson
On 20/05/2012, peter sikking wrote: > > correct me if I am wrong, but GIMP being ‘free as in beer’ is a side > effect of GIMP being ‘free as in speech,’ which is the open source > spirit why contributors contribute. If you want to be really precise, that's the free software spirit. The open sourc

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-20 Thread peter sikking
gfxuser wrote: >> This would be tricky. People can use professional workflows and not be >> paid for the work they do. > In German we have the idiom of 'unprofitable art' and unfortunately this says > a lot about payment for creatives for long ;-( It's understandable, that > they'd like to have

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-19 Thread Billy Greenacre
From: gfxuser To: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP? Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > 1)http://blog.mmiworks.net/2006/11/creating-user-scenarios-with-gimptea

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-19 Thread gfxuser
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: 1)http://blog.mmiworks.net/2006/11/creating-user-scenarios-with-gimpteam.html "In the five days before this weekend, Ellen and Kamila had been gathering vital raw material by performing workplace observation. Half a dozen professionals in the field of photography and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-18 Thread gfxuser
peter sikking wrote: gfxuser wrote: the last thread reminded me of a question, which I had for some longer and I couldn't find the right answer yet: Who is the targeted audience of GIMP? since I am used to doing a briefing on this, for GIMP design projects and also recently the start of a un

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-18 Thread Srihari Sriraman
Makes sense; speed is necessary. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM, peter sikking wrote: > Alexandre wrote: > > > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Srihari Sriraman wrote: > > > >> Is speed really inferred from the vision? > >>> > >>> tools get out of the way of getting things done and allow for >

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-18 Thread peter sikking
Alexandre wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Srihari Sriraman wrote: > >> Is speed really inferred from the vision? >>> >>> tools get out of the way of getting things done and allow for accelerating >>> the workflow >> >> This talks of a non obstructive interface, which appeals to me, bu

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-18 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Srihari Sriraman wrote: > Is speed really inferred from the vision? >> >> tools get out of the way of getting things done and allow for accelerating >> the workflow > > This talks of a non obstructive interface, which appeals to me, but how is > speed a necessity?

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-18 Thread Srihari Sriraman
> Beautiful. Clear. Is *speed* really inferred from the vision? > tools get out of the way of getting things done and allow for accelerating > the workflow This talks of a *non obstructive interface*, which appeals to me, but how is speed a neces

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-18 Thread peter sikking
gfxuser wrote: > the last thread reminded me of a question, which I had for some longer and I > couldn't find the right answer yet: > Who is the targeted audience of GIMP? since I am used to doing a briefing on this, for GIMP design projects and also recently the start of a university usability

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-18 Thread Ragnar Brynjúlfsson
There are a couple of user scenarios that are not on the list, that I hope can be included. These are: - Creating original art from scratch (basically drawing and painting...this is mainly what I use GIMP for). Actually, it works pretty nicely for this as is...but it would be nice to see it includ

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-18 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, gfxuser wrote: > Hi, > > the last thread reminded me of a question, which I had for some longer and I > couldn't find the right answer yet: > Who is the targeted audience of GIMP? 1) http://blog.mmiworks.net/2006/11/creating-user-scenarios-with-gimpteam.html "In

Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-17 Thread Srihari Sriraman
Bump. I'd love to know the answer to this too... And maybe an experienced developer could write an article about their inference of the product vision, which would prove to be helpful for new developers. Somehow those 6 lines seem too abstract to me. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:43 AM, gfxuser wrot

[Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

2012-05-17 Thread gfxuser
Hi, the last thread reminded me of a question, which I had for some longer and I couldn't find the right answer yet: Who is the targeted audience of GIMP? Reading the product vision and the document 'GIMP 2.8 understanding UI changes' I don't see a clear definition of that, but only two group