(02-16-2021, 10:44 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Not much changes in the Gimp universe.
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Let me begin by emphasizing that I sincerely appreciate the efforts of you, ofnuts, and the others here, and the following is in no way intended to imply that you "are not doing enough".
But, I do often see a mindest in the free software community where the creators feel they are providing a "charity" of sorts, while the end users are the recipients of "welfare".....and that seems kinda screwed up to me. Perhaps that view is a product of jaundice that comes from years of sacrifice where the perceived return falls short of the sense of contribution...I can only speculate there. But I also suspect that the creative spark that inspired the developer to write software and put it out in the public domain in the first place must have at least in part been based on the personal satisfaction of having your creation "out there" and (ostensibly ,at least) accomplishing some "good".
As such,I'd think the developers would be glad to hear feedback from end users, both the good and the bad. Whether they act on the feedback is entirely another matter,
As an analogy, if I made leg braces for crippled children in my garage, and took them to the local community center and made them freely available to the needy.....if some little 8 year old mentioned discomfort with one of the products I provided, I think a constructive reaction would be for me to inspect and see if some means of relieving the discomfort could be achieved, rather than simply responding "why you little ingrate, you know I'm not getting rich providing these things".
Perhaps there is some inverse bias in the free software community, where the developers see the Bill Gates' and the Adobe systems raking up these huge piles of cash, and recognizing the disparity, simply vent the resulting frustration onto their user base who dare voice desires? (just speculating) .
As far as "finding another means to achieve your goal" you are absolutely right. I have gotten rather skillful in my use of the "heal" tool since the demise of resynthesizer.....and (separately) have even impressed myself with my ability to make random patterns tile "seamlessly", with pixel by pixel editing....which I believe was 90%+ of my prior use of the resynthesizer plugin.
So I guess there is a great deal of validity in the old axiom "that which does not kill us, only makes us stronger"...
I do hope that gimp will find the wherewithall to push forward. I'd hate to see the major Linux distros just push it aside as "moribund".
(02-16-2021, 03:21 AM)eepjr24 Wrote: - E
In conclusion, I'd just like to emphasize that I am also providing my feedback "free of charge", as well.
