Quoting peter sikking's weblog: (http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/2007/05/lgm-gimp-project-overview.html) "ALSO NOT PAINTER the focus for GIMP is to work with ?found? images;" I do not understand the reason for this restriction. Myself, I am not a painter. I do not use the GIMP for painting but I recognize that there are many who do. It seems such a short stretch for the GIMP to extend its already powerful paintbox toolset to incorporate other painting concepts that I fail to see why development in this direction should not be encouraged. On a similar note, I wish to express a related concern with another category of "user" who, in my opinion, is not being sufficiently addressed in the current focus on user interface design: the developer. In the Free Software universe, the most important users of software are the ones who contribute to the project; whether through documentation, language translation, meaningful bug reporting, or actual programming. It would seem that minimizing the demands on potential contributors should be a major focus of proposed changes in the GIMP's "user" interface -- I have seen the opposite sentiment expressed by Mr Sikking and while I very much appreciate his contribution to the GIMP's development, I would that this aspect be considered. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
