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Great to hear! Now if only it was easier to understand what most of the buttons with strange icons do...

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Would that help: https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-concepts-main-windows.htm... ?

Hover your cursor over the icon and a tooltip will tell you

Unless you're using a touch display.

Tapping the icon using a touch display also brings up the tooltip (I just checked)

I agree that it's useful to have that, but sadly still not very discoverable. I know people who won't tap anything before they are shown what it does.

I might fall into the same category, noticing how confused I was recently after running some software with no button labels for the first time.

Expert software is not for everyone.

Gimp is not expert software though. It’s an okay foss alternative to photoshop, but just because it has an awful UX does not suddenly make it ax expert software.

I think "alternative to photoshop" pushes it into the expert category. Non-expert would be something like MS Paint.

I don't consider Gimp to have radically worse UX either. I've got a couple of minor gripes but nothing major.

By far, most experts use Photoshop.

Most experts use commercial software like Autocad 3ds max over Blender for example, too. But what is your point? It's still expert software.

GIMP - Free and you only pay with your time and sanity.

Now if we could only come up with some word for people that exchange time for money...

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