Now do keep in mind there is a difference between raise on focus and focus follows mouse. Click to focus needless requires extra clicking. Oddly, what you're calling a misfeature is what many would call click-to-focus. I was appalled by the focus-follows-mouse misfeature. I was able to go straight from photoshop to gimp without needed a help file (which is a good thing, since Ubuntu doesn't seem to include the gimp help files) The only major problems left with gimps AI are dealing with layers pasting is especially cumbersome. The newer gimp UI is a significant improvement.
The new interface has the toolbar that is common to every other graphics program in existence, so it doesn't require a series of tutorials just to know where to get started.
It's like blender, where everything about the UI is just wrong, anyone with even the slightest bit of experience on similar software simplt cannot use it.ģ horizontal windows? whats going on? I've been using various graphic programs for 15 years now, never needing a manual for any of them, until running into gimp, the 1st program I souldn't solve intuitively, through trial and error. the old gimp UI was impossible to navigate. They only screwed it up in the newer versions due to reasons completely unknown to me. Take a look at Gimp 2.2 it's - I believe - the last version with the "old" UI, which was very intuitive and convenient to use.