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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Now do VLC 4.0 :D

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago (7 children)

To all of the authors below who have disparaging opinions on the UX/UI experience and or the download ability. It’s a volunteer project for a reason. If you have such grand ideas and abilities put your money where your fingers are and fucking sign up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Money link donate now you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

God forbid people offer feedback.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Helpful Feedback is fine. As the OP said there is no need for disparaging feedback.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Declaring that the only legitimate feedback comes from people who are also capable of doing the work is not a good way to solicit constructive feedback.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Next. They should drop everything and solely focus on improving ux & ui . Every time I open gimp to try and get acclimated to it, I close it back out of frustration. Nothing is intuitive in that software. Not even the naming of the tools settings.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is essential that you explain exactly what you find unintuitive, otherwise -forgive me, but- this feedback is worthless. Make a bullet list, with captures, show how you would rename or rearrange things. Do your part !

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

forgive me, but- this feedback is worthless

Its not useless when literally 99% of the people who tried GIMP Over the past 25+ years have had the exact same reaction, pretending its not a thing its whats useless

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

To be honest, nothing is intuitive in any complex software. Every time I open Photoshop I want to cry in pain. But it isn't because Photoshop is bad (that I don't know actually), but because I am not familiar with it at all

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i mean its pretty good if you get used to it.. i remember the shortcuts for all the major tools i use and it's very quick and easy to use for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This is exactly the problem they face. I use GIMP since ~15years. Any change they make will annoy me to a degree. But I also understand that getting into the UI is not that easy. They somehow have to manage these two completly opposing interests.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Brilliant and huge congrats to the amazing people who worked on it. One silly question though, is the "new" Gimp logo supposed to look out of focus or are my eyes getting old?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not having non-destructive editing has kept me from using gimp. I tried but just couldn't use it. I'll have to try again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If it's non destructive now I might try to learn it.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I opened it, changed brush, got a segmentation fault crash lmao

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

It's always the user's fault. Why do think you could change the brush using an UI element!?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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