That's what I used to think as well actually. I opened it, saw the airplane control center, and closed it. But then I volunteered for editing a photo for my school, and I had to learn how to effectively create borders around the text, as I would have to makes a lot of changes to them. So I searched and came across this video. And then I understood that GIMP is actually a really powerful tool, you just have to learn how the developers intended you to work with it. Admittedly, having to use the drop shadow feature for text borders is pretty retarded, but it lets you fine tune the how the end result will look.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yea, people don't like it simply because they're not used to it.

For instance, Cntrl-A, select all. Cntrl-Shift-A is a way more intuitive way to deselect all.

It's the same reason people complain about OnlyOffice, which is stellar.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love open office. Partially true though with gimp. I just loathe how it does layers and I hate how the tools and shortcut keys are. Some of the most common design patterns are completely ignored. Unintuitive design is unintuitive design, even if you get used to it.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OnlyOffice is different from OpenOffice. And OpenOffice nowadays is poorly mainted, it has been forked a while back to LibreOffice

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I meant libre office actually. Only office I'm not familiar with.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 year ago

OnlyOffice is much better IMO. Local or web, integrates with Nextcloud, and has very good office compatibility, even with fonts.

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think I just learnt about only office. Been using libre office for a while, might switch!

Edit: I saw it doesnt natively support odt, so I might not switch after all..

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

I switched, never looked back. It's so much better for me.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I've become used to an alt modifier being typically negative and shift positive so ctrl+alt+a would be more like the unselect all and shift would add to a selection (though I guess you can't add more to the selection after "all")

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

We’re not using that word are we!

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'll give the video a watch but yeah I've used it countless times at this point. Doing extremely basic things like adding text to a document is painful for me due to the extremely weird way layers and selection works. Not to mention basic stuff like zoom shortcut keys standard everywhere else do not work.