Instrumented GIMP To Identify Usability Flaws

Mike writes "New users of the GIMP often become frustrated at the application's unwieldy user interface. Now Prof. Michael Terry and a group of researchers at the University of Waterloo have created ingimp, a modified version of the GIMP that collects real-time usability data in order to help the GIMP developers find and fix its usability problems. Terry recently gave a lecture about ingimp and the data it collects. During each session, ingimp records events such as document creation, window manipulation, and tool use. A log of these events is sent to the ingimp server for analysis. The project hopes to answer questions such as 'What is the typical monitor resolution of a GIMP user?' and 'Is the GIMP used primarily for photo editing or drawing?'"

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Re:GIMP will always be a gimp

[Aminion]

You can put lipstick on a pig but in the end, you still have a pig.

... and that pig will be the object of thousands of zoophiles' hot fantasies! Wait - what were we talking about...?