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The UI needs a global overhaul since the day one and still nobody talks about it
@BlackLaZoR @Vosh I think lots of people talk about it. :)
We have a dedicated UX site for people share to feedback on that very topic, which we try to implement as we can: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux/-/work/_items
The hope is that over time, designers will get more comfortable and work on larger design challenges (like how new code contributors start small and hopefully grow to develop more complex features)
I love GIMP, regardless of UI.
I can do loads of stuff despite GIMP's efforts to stop me.
I've been using Photo Gimp plugin with it for years. Otherwise the interface would be an absolute mess.
Can you turn it on and off easily? I know my way around photoshop but still want to learn vanilla gimp.
No it's not just an on/off toggle. You'd have to uninstall the plugin. Install/Uninstall instructions are on the repo page. https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
I've never understood the purpose of PhotoGimp. I get why it exists. But it doesn't do anything magical that GIMP isn't already designed to let you do in the first place...which is move around, open, close and organize any window or dock into any place you want.
Anyone who has used GIMP for more than a few days has long since organized it to their own personal workflow; even some that look like photoshop.
The same goes for keyboard shortcuts. You can change literally everything about how GIMP looks anytime you want. So why lock yourself into some script that makes it look like a clone of some corporate crap, and worse...donate to the guy who designed said script as though he made something significant that no one else could achieve.
It's very existence is a lie. Users aren't locked into anything and he didn't do some magic to change that. It's literally how GIMP is designed to be customized.
Play with it. Have fun with it. That's the entire point.
It's basically just a drop in configuration to make it look and feel more like the Photoshop interface. Can you accomplish the same with tinkering? Sure. Do I want the spend all day trying to make it look pretty when I need to actually be working in the software? Hell no. Just drop in the plugin and get to work. It has it's place. It would be less necessary if GIMP default layout didn't suck right out of the box.