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minus-squareRoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoNo self-respecting UI designer would ever want to work on that dinosaur of a codebase. The GIMP team is simply unable to do what Blender did, even if they made the UI their number one priority.
minus-squaremholiv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoI mean the whole point of doing the mega rewrite to gtk3 was specifically to enable such forward looking progress. What they did in the 3.0 release was, largely, a massive modernization of a dinosaur code base. Now that it’s done it makes sense to do a UI overhaul. Before 3.0 it made no sense to even try, now it does.
No self-respecting UI designer would ever want to work on that dinosaur of a codebase. The GIMP team is simply unable to do what Blender did, even if they made the UI their number one priority.
I mean the whole point of doing the mega rewrite to gtk3 was specifically to enable such forward looking progress.
What they did in the 3.0 release was, largely, a massive modernization of a dinosaur code base.
Now that it’s done it makes sense to do a UI overhaul. Before 3.0 it made no sense to even try, now it does.