> [Search] kinda works when you generally know what you need or how a feature you want could be called
I mean, that's how I feel using the GIMP menus. I never know where anything is, and my first guess is usually wrong.
I mean, that's how I feel using the GIMP menus. I never know where anything is, and my first guess is usually wrong.
I had the same experience, and searching for answers using keywords was not very effective. There are so many features that the terms I guessed were often a different concept in GIMP, leading to a bunch of irrelevant results.
I have found that ChatGPT solves this problem very well, so I don't even try searching first anymore. I can verbosely explain what I am trying to accomplish, and it tells me "that is called X in GIMP, and here is how to use it: ...".
A recent example is that the Bucket Fill tool was filling in adjacent pixels that were a slightly different color than the one I clicked on. ChatGPT told me this is called the "threshold" and how to change it to 0 so it only filled exact matches. I would have searched for something like "gimp bucket fill sensitivity" or "gimp bucket fill precision", then had to read through a forum answer or the GIMP documentation to see that term.
ChatGPT didn't tell you. It scrapped an answer off a forum and regurgitated that to you after applying a language transform. It's second result on DDG for "gimp fill tool border" -- https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/42621/hard....
And you would have seen the correct answer if you searched this instead of trying to explain it to ChatGPT.
The first result of my Kagi search for that exact query is the official GIMP documentation. It provides the answer in the snippet.
> The Threshold slider sets the level at which color weights are measured for fill boundaries. A higher setting will fill more of a multi colored image and conversely, a lower setting will fill less area.
The second result is from graphicdesign.stackexchange.com and the snippet tells you that you might want to check the anti-alias setting if you want non-softened filling. That seems relevant if you want exact color areas to be filled with the exact color you picked as well.
Overall pretty happy with the first two results, I feel that they answered the question without even clicking away from the results page or trying to explain things to ChatGPT.
In Google the results for that quote are rather useless.
And I think that's most of the disconnect in the UI, which the devs have gradually gotten over by adding shadow XML data in the SVG to support Inkscape features while always presenting a rendered result.
Still, the drawing tools aren't consistent about the units they use yet. There is a lot of stuff there, and some of it is just papercuts.