On 11 March 2015 at 11:20, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
In my experience listening to feedback from GIMP users after the v2.8 release, people who complained the least were people who GIMP has been targeting in the first place: people who work on challenging tasks and, by nature of their work, need to save XCF files (to retain layers etc.) to go back and edit them later. People who complained the most were people who either used GIMP for quick editing (for which GIMP is like a hammer to a bolt in the absense of a screwdriver) or were so sure they would never make a mistake that they would rather blindly click OK in the "Not safe to save to this lossy file format" and then close without saving to XCF.
I believe you are right. But Gimp risks a fork if it isn't interested in targeting edit workflows. This is up to the developers and designers of course. But there isn't anything on the Linux desktop that can do cropping and colour tasks. So we have to use gimp and we have to fork it in order to turn it into an edit tool instead of an art tool.
Of course if you ask gimp developers, they'll tell you gimp is great for cropping and colour tweaking tasks... Except it isn't because they've focused on designing for a different workflow. As you've identified.
It would be nice if they had said "don't use gimp for this, use X". But instead the argument (which is poor community communication) was to "get used to it". Utterly failing to differentiate their users and their workflows.
But I think you know all this.
Martin,