Here is my own modest grain of salt in the discussion: I have been teaching Gimp to first-year university students for more than six years, to one or two hundreds students every year. I have never encountered any specific criticism among them about Gimp's GUI. More, I cannot understand what seems to be so fundamentally bad or wrong in that GUI. The remarks I read are not specific at all, and generally seem to boil down to one single reproach: Gimp is not Photoshop. I think that Gimp developers should not spend any time discussing this.
Somebody in this list said that teachers have the duty to teach what is an industry standard. My own strong opinion is that one of my duties as a university teacher is to try changing the industry standards, if I think they are inappropriate. If my students need later to learn using Photoshop or Vista, they will be able to learn them quickly and easily, and with an acutely critical mind (hopefully). For the present, I prefer to teach them Gimp and GNU/Linux, and to teach them not to accept any so-called standard without discussion and thought. -- Olivier Lecarme _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user