The thing is a lot of people have issues with GIMP because of it GUI, but the real issue there is having to go through hoops to do some things, and there are things that could have been separate tools, for examples, move tools have three things, and a lot
of people expect certain things about GIMP to work like X program. Inkscape should avoid the issue of having to go through hoops when workflow is considered, and emulate what standard programs does to a extent, and not have to do things differently because
we want this to be unique logic. We should be looking at how we can make people work with Inkscape most effectively, and looking at programs where GUI complaints is rarely even heard about. Illustrator is not exactly perfect in regards to workflow, and I find
Affinity Designer much easier to work with, and natural to work with, and there are some cases where I have to go through hoops on Illustrator (like avoiding joining curves when making a curve where a node is exactly on another node's location).
Also, if you look at Adobe Photoshop 3D thing, that thing is barely even used by many professional, and then there is the pen tool which some people avoid like the plague. I can see why people avoid Photoshop 3D tools (Like terrible GUI for example), but to be fair, Adobe is far, and by far way behind on the 3D thing, and will always be. So, radically changing things automatically is not a very good idea.
Finally, I got another idea, do we have some sort FAQ document within Inkscape? Rhino (NURBS modeling software) has a way to automatically access FAQ when tools are being used, and it helped me learn how Rhino works, and what their features does. This would
help users navigate through Inkscape faster, and some of the GUI complaints would die down a bit.
Yes GIMP has a LOT of good stuff in it.Let's be a bit constructive here. This is not a good place to bash GIMP if you want people to take your comments and suggestions seriously.
On 31 Aug 2017 22:07, "Miguel Lopez" <reptillia39@...3425...> wrote:
GIMP has something good in it? (I'm not a fan of GIMP, quite the
opposite) I prefer to have options to expand options manually, and that
is what I been doing in other programs.
On 8/31/2017 10:46 AM, Nate Yungkans wrote:
> planning on creating a thought out set of wireframes that will explain
> what I'm thinking of. What gimp does well is the rearranging of tabs
> and having a consistent hierarchy.
>
> Being able to rearrange placement of tool bars is also very desirable
> so people can customize the layout. Programs like illustrator often
> have both a tool bar for quick functions and a tab menu for complete
> functionality.
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