this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
692 points (98.3% liked)

linuxmemes

20761 readers
1612 users here now

I use Arch btw

Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
692
When I want to use free software to make memes: (feddit.de)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The damn thing was written by a couple of College Students who had no experience with graphic arts and man does it show. The UI has been the number #1 complaint since the 1.0 release back in 1998; how it's never been updated / overhauled is simply beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why? Looks basically the same as photoshop, which everybody seems to love.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Among other things:

  • monochrome color scheme prevents easy recognition of tools
  • dozens and dozens of arcane options listed alongside super basic options
  • weird sizing of buttons
  • no help search, and no search that can associate synonyms where users don't know what term to search for
  • no inbuilt suggestions when user behaves strangely (eg. user is spamming the escape key, searching "deselect", maybe suggest the deselect all hotkey?)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can change the icon theme in the settings to a color one. That's what I always do. The scaling can be changed as well.

May I ask what are some of the arcane options supposed to be?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do you change scaling of buttons?

what are some of the arcane options supposed to be?

Not at PC for a few days but IIRC I was overwhelmed whenever going through any drop down menu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Edit > Preferences > Interface > Icon Theme > Custom icon size

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Newer versions of Photoshop have like 8 buttons and a toolbar which is terrible imo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

It looks good to me...