On Wednesday 17 April 2013 Apr 01:14:39 Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 18:08 -0400, Arwa Hamid wrote: > > > To enhance the usability, when the user starts > > the software, I suggest the following, a box can be popped up asking if he wants > > to create a new image or open an existing image and response directly instead of > > the user pressing on file, then press on create or open. > > Krita does this, iirc. Yeah... And it gives us no end of complaints, too. It seems that about half of the people I talk to love it, the other half hates it. We have had one usability study done at a Finnish university that concluded that it's no big problem, but also no advantage at all. > > MyPaint I think gives you a blank canvas. > > It might be that when the gegl integration is a little further along > GIMP will support unbounded canvases, and could reasonably just start > with a blank canvas ready to draw. The out-of-the-box experience with > GIMP is a little intimidating (although nowhere near as bad as Blender > or gcc), but, GIMP isn't really a tool for the proverbial Aunt Tillie > either... -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
