[Beldin]

Gimp is open source. Don't get me wrong, I love users and am very grateful for feedback. But how they can continue to make noise over a feature for over a decade without learning to code and implement it themselves or, you know, just hire developers to do it for them is beyond me. As far as I can see, this is not wanting a feature, but "wanting" a feature.

[jwagenet]

These are users who have a very competitive alternative and have no incentive to whip up the fix themselves. Usually the way it goes is an open source advocate asks why a user doesn’t use gimp, and the user has reasons xyz, then the advocate makes noise on the user’s behalf. It’s not like the real users are pining for these features, they just go somewhere else.

[matsemann]

Eh, those wanting the feature pay for Photoshop instead. Most are probably not freeloaders moaning, but people with problems they want to solve now.

[whywhywhywhy]

Why would anyone want to help making the GIMP project better if this has been the attitude of the project?

Not entirely convinced the archaic base is even worth building off at this point.

I’d be more inspired in building the thing that would destroy GIMP and Photoshop than help make GIMP better.