Comment by KellyCriterion
1 day ago
the funny thing with GIMP is: even while its a very powerful tool, it still lacks a good texting tool until today :-)
and having the source available didnt help so far either :-))
1 day ago
the funny thing with GIMP is: even while its a very powerful tool, it still lacks a good texting tool until today :-)
and having the source available didnt help so far either :-))
For texting I recommend using a mobile phone or desktop instant messaging program. While it's not the case with all of them, graphics editing tools tend to have texting utilities as a second-class citizen at best
haha, good one :-D ;-) ;-)
Can you detail what you mean by good texting tool? What features are missing?
It's just tiny. And fiddly. And it likes to go bezerk and reset your font face/size/style settings on a whim if you so much as tickle the wrong key.
It's not intuitive. It's actually possibly my most hated widget in the entire FOSS ecosystem.
for the downvoters:
could you please show me a good textting tool plugin for GIMP, then?
you can check their forums & other sites: the textingtools is on top of their discussion lists?
I don't see it at the top of the discussion on the forums I checked.
So can you expand why you think the text tool, is bad?
Before release 3.0: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/gimp-3-0-will-the-text-tool-be-im...
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/1fecr6u/suggestion_im...
Its just the first two results from top of Google.
Maybe the tool was improved in version 3.0, I'm running an older 2.x version. I will check it next time.
The versions were difficult in: - font size applying - random loss / reset settings - there were some issues with the preview when editting - font preview before selection etc.
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I don't understand what you mean by texting tool. Do you mean text rendering? kerning?
Honestly, I think it was just the smiley faces. I didn't downvote.
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FTFY: the funny thing with GIMP is: even while its a very powerful tool, it still lacks a good image editing tool until today
Nothing stops you from creating a PR :-)))
I would, if I would GIMP use often enough to have the motivation - I use GIMP maybe 2 - 3 times a year.
And thats the irony covered in my post: Even that the source is available didnt motivate someone enough so far to create better version of the built
Nothing stops you from commenting these useless comments.