Re:It's about time (Score 1)

My real complaint with the GIMP is the obscure nature of the entire program. Thats hard to put into words, and its NOT JUST that its an MDI program(curse the gods!) its more about the actual execution of the interface. My biggest complaint was when I was making pixel graphics for a game I was doing, the color picker ALWAYS pops up a window with the RGB information of the color you've just picked. I looked around online for a way around this as when you pixel, you change your colors a lot. The manual and many various webpages were no help. I ended up having to join the mailing list and filing a bug to get a snotty reply from a GIMP dev(or someone involved with the project) that if you hold CTRL when picking colors, the popup is bypassed. Anyone else see a problem with this?

Don't get me wrong, there are things I love about the GIMP, such as the dynamic keyboard shortcuts. The problem though is with GIMP's default behavior being so left-of-center. The dynamic keyboard shortcuts are turned off by default!!

I think that if there were some fresh air in the development process of the GIMP that a few small changes could help GIMP grab a much bigger segment of the marketshare for imaging apps. I occasionally will use crappy paint programs that use an SDI just to avoid using GIMP. Hopefully the GIMP dev's will start to listen(although why would they start now if they never did?) Best of luck!