Good video, very much worth watching despite the length. New UI will look something like this:

with an option for a more classic look.

Looks like an enourmous UX improvement too, and a rewrite to QT and eliminating a lot of technical debt will make development faster.

  • Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de
    33·
    2 days ago

    Now when will Gimp get the same treatment… I know some people like it but I just can’t. I’d rather use Affinity Photo via proton a custom wine version (ElementalWarriorWine)

    • P13@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      2 days ago

      Ah, didn’t know it worked with Proton!

      I have an Affinity license that’s just been collecting dust while I use the Photopea web app.

    • TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      I usually go with Krita. Not because of the UI, i just learnt to use it first and like it. Or Inkscape for vector graphics.

      • unexpected@forum.guncadindex.comEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Agreed. Krita is a better program for print design. The fact that it has a full range of color models built in is powerful stuff. Not just CMYK, but LAB and many others. But GIMP has its advantages for some tasks if you never leave the realm of RGB.

      • Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        2 days ago

        Krita I tried for while, but I’ve been spoiled by Affinity Photo’s selection tool. Can’t use path tool or magic wand anymore

    • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      95·
      2 days ago

      Gimp is a misbegotten, irredeemable piece of UI trash. The fact that it’s been around this long and gets egregiously worse with each iteration is baffling to me.

      • balsoft@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 days ago

        I mean, it in a very literal way the parent project of GTK, and therefore indirectly responsible for GNOME, so that kind of checks out. I use it quite often though, and you can learn it to do what you wanna do.

        • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          Hey I don’t want to come off the wrong way, couple decades ago gimp was very useful to me, when I was trapped in a company that wouldn’t pay a penny for any kind of software, and on the FOSS side of things choices for imaging applications were sparse at best. Gimp was a lifesaver at times.

          But it always been an interface disaster. I spent decades doing UI/X alongside other development, and gimp has always been a piece of shit designed by a programmer with the toxic “what it works” mentally.