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From: Simon Batistoni
Subject: GIMP
Date: 10:21 on 18 Dec 2003
I could so almost like GIMP. They've made a good effort at building
something that has the majority of features Photoshop does, and it's
free. Good on 'em.

But they need an interface designer. I mean, two distinct file menus?
One which you use to open things, and then one per open file which you
access by right-clicking? I've worn out an entire mouse clicking in
the wrong place when I'm working.

And there's no easy way to deselect selected areas. What's worse, the
Photoshop shortcut I have muscle-memoried (^D) does something entirely
different. I don't know what, because it always seems to hang the
program. Argh.

But here's the one which really makes me hate with a black, burning
hatred which consumes all in its path. Maybe this is just
gimp-1.3. Maybe it's only on BSD. Whatever, it's fricking annoying.

So, I manage to avoid ^D, and I've managed to remember which menu
everything is supposed to be in. And I have an image, finally.

I click "save", and set it up as a jpeg. Click the final button
and... BOOM! One dead app, one lost image. And there's no way I could
fricking save it, because the "save" function is broken.

I could cope if the paintbrush was shonky. I could cope if filters
were knackered. I could cope if the colour palette was inverted and I
had to draw everything in negative and then re-map it once I was
done. But the save function being unreliable? Bah.

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