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GIMP 2.8 Will Sport a Redesigned UI
ceswiedler writes "Ars Technica's Ryan Paul previews the upcoming release of the GIMP. It will include a single-window mode where the user can dock toolbar windows and switch between images via tabs. There are other improvements as well, including docking support in multi-window mode and improvements to the text tool." To get this early preview, Paul compiled version 2.7.1 from the active development branch, along with its dependencies.
So now they're screwing up a totally fine UI and degenerate into the train wreck that's Photoshop. Nice.
As for "clicking on every single window", you should be using focus-follows-mouse - and if managing many windows is a problem, use a good (tiling) window manager.
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You can get user-friendliness with open source software. You just shouldn't be looking at apps built upon a hack toolkit like GTK+. So that rules out basically all GNOME apps.
Check out apps that use Qt. Most KDE apps, for instance, have a UI superior to that of many Mac OS X apps.
Seriously, the march of the "user interface police" in Linux and open source kills me.
We once had this uber-great Unix-like system: modular, customizable, efficient, intelligent. What was missing were drivers and applications.
Now we get drivers and applications only with them comes the same idiotic Windows/Mac-like interface and interoperability world that I spent so many years in Unix trying to avoid.
I guess you can't have a modular, customizable, efficient, intelligent system that also has lots of drivers and great applications. At least, nothing like this has yet existed in the world of computing, half a century on.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
Is that the one where you had to right-click on the image to save it? But that still had a "file" menu--just no "save" option in it?
'cuz that one had probably the worst GUI I've ever used.