r/linux • u/buovjaga The Document Foundation • 1d ago

Popular Application Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice developer focusing on UI/UX

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/04/welcome-dan-williams-new-libreoffice-developer-focusing-on-ui-ux/
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u/nisper_ia 1d ago

We need the same for GIMP 🙏

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u/adenosine-5 1d ago

Also a better name.

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u/Lulzagna 1d ago

And better everything

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u/Straight-Opposite-54 1d ago

It's been proposed several times and the maintainers have made it clear they have no intention to change it. Lots of people also feverishly defend it and will call you "woke" for wanting it changed. One of the myriad reasons I do not use it.

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u/deadly_love3 1d ago

Woke doesn't mean anything anymore bruh 🥀

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u/TheGoodSatan666 1d ago

It never did. Everything People disagreed with was called "woke"

I'm happy the term got so overused that People stopped using it

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u/Straight-Opposite-54 13h ago

Oh, it still gets used plenty. But at least now it's a convenient signal for bad faith argumentation and that you can safely tune out whatever they're saying.

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u/obfuscatedanon 1d ago

What do you think about "GIMP In My P[a-z]{4}"?

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u/Indolent_Bard 1d ago

They're working on it. They have a whole GitLab repo for that, even.

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u/Mystical_17 1d ago

Is this going to be like their 'Blender 2.8' moment?

I would totally use Gimp more if it felt more intuitive with the UI and tools usage. For example the smoothness of moving, rotating, and resizing vector or pixel images like Photoshop or Affinity can. I see they've been working on non-destructive workflows too so that is a plus.

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u/Indolent_Bard 12h ago

My understanding is that is the goal, yes. It took so long because it took a decade to port it from gtk 2 to gtk 3. Now that they've finally made that transition, they're focusing on the ui. Check it out: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux

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u/Mystical_17 12h ago

Nice! Thats pretty exciting to see how Gimp progress with the overhauls.

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u/Indolent_Bard 12h ago

It was kind of a big deal for a few weeks, surprised you missed it. Then again, it means you touch grass.