And while we are at it, here are a few more quality-of-live improvements:
- Pressing '/' opens a search dialog for all tools.
- By default, the brush size selector precision is garbage. You can get fine precision by using '[' or ']' keys, mouse wheel or right click + drag instead of left click + drag.
GIMP can do most things, but it is unfortunately a good example of how sane defaults are important.
That being said, I've tried version 3 and did not notice a large difference in UI except that everything is a darker shade of gray: https://i.imgur.com/Lj5BIA2.png
I don't mind black and white icons in most places, but in GIMP and Inkscape I turn on colour icons - there are lots of icons together in a palette and it's hard to tell which is which.
Monochrome icons is from GNOME, it's a shame Sun has gone, they used to do usability testing on GNOME and publish the results
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Just FYI, changing icons/themes/tool groups is even simpler in 3.0. In the Welcome Dialogue that pops up on start, you can change all those settings in the Personalize tab.
This also annoys me to no end. Here is how to fix the icons:
Ungroup GIMP tool icons:
Restore old icons with color: And while we are at it, here are a few more quality-of-live improvements:- Pressing '/' opens a search dialog for all tools.
- By default, the brush size selector precision is garbage. You can get fine precision by using '[' or ']' keys, mouse wheel or right click + drag instead of left click + drag.
GIMP can do most things, but it is unfortunately a good example of how sane defaults are important.
That being said, I've tried version 3 and did not notice a large difference in UI except that everything is a darker shade of gray: https://i.imgur.com/Lj5BIA2.png