__/ [ Kelsey Bjarnason ] on Friday 25 August 2006 01:52 \__
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:23:46 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> OpenUsability Sponsored Student Projects
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>> | The GIMP team is proud to announce that the GNU Image Manipulation
>> | Program has been chosen as the first Open Source Software project for
>> | a sponsored student project on usability.
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>> http://www.gimp.org/announcements/open-usability-gimp.html
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>> Personally, I find that GNU Image Manipulation Program very usable. I get
>> things done more quickly than I did with Paintshop and Photoshop.
>
> Good app... abysmal UI. I keep looking for the magic button that'll merge
> all these dissociated chunks into a single, coherent unified window.
The window fragmentation is what enables you, for instance, to work on 10
images simultaneously in multi-head displays, without all the clutter that
is in menus and toolkits. It took me time to comprehend why it's a better
way of getting things done (been using GIMP since 2002). If this isn't a
convenient transition (due to long-acquired habits), there is a plug-in that
achieve what you want and it's also prepackaged under the fork called
GIMPShop where, even menu item names and layouts, have been altered to
resemble Adobe Photoshop. It has become rather popular for the wrong
reasons.
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