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Originally Posted by mrmikel
Although I find GIMP very powerful and useful, ease of use is not the first thought I have for GIMP.
In part it may be that abilities which could only be done by full time professionals in the past are now available on the desktop....if you can figure out how to use them.
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I think this thread is the first time I've ever seen the gimp held up as an ideal for UI design. That app has gotten so much flack for its UI over the years that the complaints about calibre would look like a drop of water in an ocean. At least they finally got over their aversion to a single-window app and give you the option now not to have toolbars and windows spread around everywhere.
Personally I like calibre's UI. Maybe I'm weird. I do use a different icon set (the Metro-style icons that were posted somewhere here a long time ago, but they still work great), and I have my toolbars and layouts all customized, but that's all personal preference. I bet that if there was the ability to package up toolbar layouts, icons, and plugins into a single package that someone could download and apply to calibre and if a number of different layouts and icon packs were available, that would probably go a long way towards quieting a lot of the "Calibre is ugly!! !! !! uu!!" outcry.
That does nothing for the folks who think a book manager has to have a faux-wood bookshelf display with the book covers face-out (who sets up a real bookshelf that way?). IMHO those are users calibre could do without. As long as a faux-bookshelf view is never added, I honestly can live with any other UI modifications or changes (or lack thereof)
