Name: Anonymous 2006-09-22 6:50
I'll start this GIMPlog which I'll be updating every time I'm forced to do something with GIMP and find the interface sucks. I don't use GIMP when I need to do serious image editing, but sometimes I need to fix or retouch something and I don't want to switch to Windows for Paint Shop Pro X. Note: I won't list each annoyance more than once, even if it annoys the hell out of me every day in my life.
Using GIMP 2.2.8.
Editing a key icon:
- It seems the only way to substract from an existing selection will force you to select radially, i.e. select from the center, then create a rectangle by moving to one corner, while you can add to a selection in both ways; this one, and the sane, intuitive one.
- I picked the Crop tool, and clicked on the image to crop it. Instead of the crop, a fugly window popped in. I had to stop dragging to move that crap away.
- When cropping, instead of making you move the crop selection intuitively (just like a regular selection) as it works in PSP, you have to use the top-right and bottom-left corners. As a consequence, you can only resize your crop from the top-left and bottom-right corners. Another bad decision.
- To write this GIMPlog, I'm using a maximized Kate, a fine, sane, modern, customizable editor. When I Alt-Tabbed from GIMP to the editor to write another log entry and went back to the image, I was reminded why non-docked interfaces like GIMP's blow: I had to rescue every fucking window because they had been all hidden and Alt-Tabbing to the image wouldn't restore them. At least they could have made these windows to automatically pop in, as undocked PSP windows would. Oh, and as an extra bonus, my taskbar is spammed with GIMP's windows.
- Now for some reason my GIMP seems to be broken. When I select and hit Ctrl+C, it hangs. I would understand if Klipper, for example, got in the way, but GIMP (or rather the X clipboard) sucks so much GIMP has its own, incompatible, private clipboard, so I don't know what could go wrong. I'll have to look into it.
Editing star ranking icons:
- Argh, the GNOME file selector!
Using GIMP 2.2.8.
Editing a key icon:
- It seems the only way to substract from an existing selection will force you to select radially, i.e. select from the center, then create a rectangle by moving to one corner, while you can add to a selection in both ways; this one, and the sane, intuitive one.
- I picked the Crop tool, and clicked on the image to crop it. Instead of the crop, a fugly window popped in. I had to stop dragging to move that crap away.
- When cropping, instead of making you move the crop selection intuitively (just like a regular selection) as it works in PSP, you have to use the top-right and bottom-left corners. As a consequence, you can only resize your crop from the top-left and bottom-right corners. Another bad decision.
- To write this GIMPlog, I'm using a maximized Kate, a fine, sane, modern, customizable editor. When I Alt-Tabbed from GIMP to the editor to write another log entry and went back to the image, I was reminded why non-docked interfaces like GIMP's blow: I had to rescue every fucking window because they had been all hidden and Alt-Tabbing to the image wouldn't restore them. At least they could have made these windows to automatically pop in, as undocked PSP windows would. Oh, and as an extra bonus, my taskbar is spammed with GIMP's windows.
- Now for some reason my GIMP seems to be broken. When I select and hit Ctrl+C, it hangs. I would understand if Klipper, for example, got in the way, but GIMP (or rather the X clipboard) sucks so much GIMP has its own, incompatible, private clipboard, so I don't know what could go wrong. I'll have to look into it.
Editing star ranking icons:
- Argh, the GNOME file selector!