08-20-2021, 03:55 PM
No developers on this forum 
Personally I think the devs have lost the plot. The default black theme, symbolic icons, too many tabs might be designed to confuse beginners. A simpler setup as Gimp 2.8 (or earlier) is sufficient until a user gains experience and wants to customise the interface.
Most beginners never get as far as customising and when they do it is trying to make Gimp look like PS which IMHO is a mistake. First thing to go is the tool options dock, so no idea of any settings. Then the default save-setup-on-exit comes into force, beginner has forgotten the last settings and is totally confused when Gimp does not work as expected.
I suppose it keeps the few remaining Gimp forums in business.
Personally I think the devs have lost the plot. The default black theme, symbolic icons, too many tabs might be designed to confuse beginners. A simpler setup as Gimp 2.8 (or earlier) is sufficient until a user gains experience and wants to customise the interface.
Most beginners never get as far as customising and when they do it is trying to make Gimp look like PS which IMHO is a mistake. First thing to go is the tool options dock, so no idea of any settings. Then the default save-setup-on-exit comes into force, beginner has forgotten the last settings and is totally confused when Gimp does not work as expected.
I suppose it keeps the few remaining Gimp forums in business.