Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-17 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Mark Morin wrote: > Photoshop is not the gold standard by which all other programs are to be > evaluated. It is. Sadly so. > One could just as legitimately ask why photoshop's UI is not > like gimp's 1. Photoshop predates GIMP by 10+ years 2. GIMP contributors

[Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-17 Thread Boxman
>Good point -whether a user thinks Krita or GIMP is "more like >PhotoShop" >might depend on which version of Photoshop they've used. I'm only >familiar with one version of PhotoShop, and that's CS2 on Windows. >Maybe >PhotoShop on Mac has a substantially different UI, and maybe CC looks

Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-12 Thread Elle Stone
On 02/12/2017 01:02 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:46 PM, Elle Stone wrote: [...] Does anyone have any possible explanations for why different people with a background using PhotoShop have such wildly diverse reactions to the GIMP and Krita User

Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-12 Thread Rick Strong
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:46 PM, Elle Stone <ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com> wrote: [...] Does anyone have any possible explanations for why different people with a background using PhotoShop have such wildly diverse reactions to the GIMP and Krit

Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:46 PM, Elle Stone wrote: > [...] > Does anyone have any possible explanations for why different people with a > background using PhotoShop have such wildly diverse reactions to the GIMP > and Krita User Interfaces? version of Photoshop?

Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-11 Thread Ofnuts
On 11/02/17 14:58, Boxman wrote: 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

Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-11 Thread Pat David
Elle, Pat, do you know who actually owns/runs gimpusers.com? There doesn't seem to be an "about" link anywhere (or else I missed it). Same question and comment applies to gimpchat.com - I don't see an "about" link. I don't know who runs gimpusers.com, and gmipchat.com recently changed owners.

Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-11 Thread Elle Stone
On 02/11/2017 09:05 AM, Pat David wrote: This is not a forum, it's a bridge to a traditional mailing list that can be found here: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list Or you can use the archives to see threaded conversations: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-11 Thread Elle Stone
On 02/11/2017 08:58 AM, Boxman wrote: 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.

Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-11 Thread Simon Budig
Boxman (for...@gimpusers.com) wrote: > 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. gimpusers.com is not an official gimp forum. In fact on our official web

Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-11 Thread Pat David
Typo in the URL: https://www.gimp.org On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:05 AM Pat David wrote: > This is not a forum, it's a bridge to a traditional mailing list that can > be found here: > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > Or you can use the archives to

Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-11 Thread Pat David
This is not a forum, it's a bridge to a traditional mailing list that can be found here: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list Or you can use the archives to see threaded conversations: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list This website is _not_ run by the official

[Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

2017-02-11 Thread Boxman
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