I've shown Gimp 1.1.15 to two "normal" end-users (ie non-programmers), one of which had a Wacom tablet. PROS: * Tear-off menus are useful and intuitive (I think we should perhaps reinforce the --- line by a scissor logo (such as character 0x21 in the Zapf Dingbats font). * Previews in file loading work well and are appreciated. * XInput-aware tools, especially Ink, do interesting effects. * i18n is appreciated. CONS: A few things in the core application: * Layers and channels are *not* intuitive enough. * Bucket fill and magic select can't be made to select an area of contiguous emptyness (alpha=0). * The error margin in Select By Color is not very satisfactory. A selector that could specify a portion of the HSV space (perhaps as three ranges) could be interesting. More problematic are the plugins: * Many plug-ins are not intuitive. They use self-made vocabulary, feature no online help, have numeric parameters whose influence is mysterious... * Plug-ins that generate another image from the current image (ex: polar coords) have no parameter (output size). * Some plugins don't work on grayscale images for no clear reason. PROBLEMS: * Printing (under Linux) yields back results on certain printers (HP DeskJet 690C). * The tablet doesn't work under Windows. * Sometimes, clicking on a layer name in the Layers dialog does not work. * PovRay synthesis is (incorrectly) disabled when no image is open. --- David Monniaux - Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Superieure 45, rue d'Ulm 75230 PARIS cedex 5 Phone: +33 1 44 32 20 83 http://www.di.ens.fr/~monniaux Fax: +33 1 44 32 20 80
