Gimp New UI Brainstorming

Today, when I was bored at work I've found this really interesting blog. The blog is all about brainstorming a new UI for gimp (something I think is extremely necessary).

You can find there several types of mockups and brainstorms, from the excelent type of mockup that looks just like real to the untalented for art who draws just some squares to try to express his ideas. Thats what matters, expressing ideas.

I Think Gimp should redesing all his UI. Give some eye-candy and some revolutionary new UI functionalities to the app. The interface used now is completely non user-friendly, from the buttons that doesn't fit nice on the toolbar and to the one window for each toolbar to the complete disorganization of menus and that crappy multiple icons on the task bar.

I've chosen some nice mockups I've found there to show here the new ideas:

This mockup shows Gimp using a Blender like toolbox, I think this type of toolbox is very intuitive, and very space friendly. I didn't understood what he wanted to say with the image go beyond scrollbars. Anyone did?


I liked this one, because is something that would not change that much the used interface and would be very helpful. The space problem on Gimp today is very important, using toolbars over the image causes lot of space loss, and the portion of the image that can be seen is very small, making windows transparent would make the concentration on the image easier. The only problem about this is that I think It will be needed a composition manager running. So people without that would not take any advantages.

This one is my favorite as every one knows I'm a eye-candy lover. I really found wonderful the idea of that tabs on the top showing a thumbnail. and that window to help applying blur is really a wonderful idea. Would be wonderful to have a Image Editing app with such a nice interface. And as I said before the transparency helps not to lose the attention of the image you are editing.

People from Gimp-Brainstorm are really doing a wonderful job, now is just hope gimp developers really think and implement such a nice interface like those.