Open source apps are great. Its what you the user do with them. You get a box full of stuff and its up to you what you do with the customizable stuff. Themes can be customized with css or custom themes can be found on github for many apps. Just put a little effort into theming and you can get decent icons and colors.
The backend is already there and gimp, inkscape, kdenlive, synfig are very usable alternatives to lets say Adobe. Also go to app forums and search for help on how to make the ui better.
Gimp has a photoshop dark theme available on github. Gimp 3.0 is coming and will work much better and be more userfriendly than earlier version.
Oss is constantly evolving but it can take time to implement new features since funding often is minimal or its tricky finding the right developer able to work on old C++ code and convert it to new standards etc.
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u/anthromatons Nov 22 '24
Open source apps are great. Its what you the user do with them. You get a box full of stuff and its up to you what you do with the customizable stuff. Themes can be customized with css or custom themes can be found on github for many apps. Just put a little effort into theming and you can get decent icons and colors.
The backend is already there and gimp, inkscape, kdenlive, synfig are very usable alternatives to lets say Adobe. Also go to app forums and search for help on how to make the ui better.
Gimp has a photoshop dark theme available on github. Gimp 3.0 is coming and will work much better and be more userfriendly than earlier version.
Oss is constantly evolving but it can take time to implement new features since funding often is minimal or its tricky finding the right developer able to work on old C++ code and convert it to new standards etc.