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It's better than what currently there is but why does open source software have to have such bad UI? what are those lock and checkboxes? a 5 year old could come up with better icons...

What's up with the thick lines around UI elements? it all looks so 2008.

It sometimes looks to me like absolutely 0 designers are actually involved in open source, at all

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GIMP is a power user tool, like Photoshop, or Excel, or a Bloomberg terminal. If you don't need all that, Canva or the photo editor on your phone will offer a simpler UI.

No "power user" is touching GIMP with a ten foot pole.

I use GIMP features that the basic apps don't have, therefore I'm a GIMP power user.

> a 5 year old could come up with better icons...

Apparently none did.

I think that just shows how terribly non programmer friendly open source development is, designers and the like do not touch places like github, the whole model needs a redo to make it easier for non programmers to participate in open source development

That just show how people much prefer yelling at clouds than doing stuff.

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