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0 pointsbzzzt3mo ago0 comments

> This is such a weird trope.

No, it isn't. Lots of non-trivial OSS desktop applications are clearly made by people with no interest in aligning with expected desktop GUI behavior. From Gimp with dozens of windows to LibreOffice which is slow and has bad font rendering. And those are the 'poster apps' for FOSS desktops, lots of apps are worse.

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Moomoomoo3093mo ago

Gimp's single window mode was made the default years ago now, so that's not a great example anymore - there's scientific software that uses that paradigm that might work better, but most of that isn't OSS. Also, Libreoffice being slow and having bad font rendering seems pretty inline with Word nowadays...

pests3mo ago

> Gimp's single window mode was made the default years ago now

Good to hear. I use GIMP pretty seldomly and that was always the first menu option I had to hunt down.

throw109203mo ago

Amusingly enough, the only OSS desktop applications with good UIs got them by shamelessly stealing from commercial software that had actual paid engineers and UI/UX researchers.

OSS's UI is subsidized by commercial software.

savolai3mo ago

Gimp may be a bitnof a bad example nowadays? Of course depends on your habits and standards.

TheBicPen3mo ago

The best way to draw a circle in gimp is still the awkward select -> foreground fill workflow. At this point this example is beating a dead horse, but the horse shall continue to be beaten until a proper ellipse tool is added.

HappMacDonald3mo ago

Instructions unclear. I've kidnapped the GIMP and Inkscape teams and forced them to blend their work into one product.

It now has an ellipse tool, but finding it among the toolbars and menus is left as an exercise for the reader

wizzwizz43mo ago

I select, delete, flood fill. Three steps, but afaik it's quicker.

erikbye3mo ago

Compared to Microsoft Office suite, Libre suite is definitely not slow.

bzzztOP3mo ago

Depends on your system. A few years ago I ran it on a MacBook where scrolling on an empty page took ages. Seems nobody tried it out on a Mac before releasing the port since it was totally unusable. Hopefully it's fixed now, but I wouldn't recommend a piece of software I don't trust to anyone.

user____name3mo ago

Last time I tried (admittedly two years ago), it was incredibly sluggish, several times more so than MS Office, which is also sluggish in general.

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