Ok, but not all “common use cases” are born the same… We are literally talking about text outlining, which you are absolutely gonna need when putting text on any image. It should be as easy as changing text colour.
If you put it like that, then why do we need the “scale” and “rotate” tool, when we already have “transform” which does both and more?
“[Gimp] is an image editing software, not a text editing software, …” actual answer I got from a major contributor about this exact concern like 15 years ago.
Ok, but not all “common use cases” are born the same… We are literally talking about text outlining, which you are absolutely gonna need when putting text on any image. It should be as easy as changing text colour.
If you put it like that, then why do we need the “scale” and “rotate” tool, when we already have “transform” which does both and more?
“[Gimp] is an image editing software, not a text editing software, …” actual answer I got from a major contributor about this exact concern like 15 years ago.
“Your apartment is a shelter, not a kitchen” removes cooking appliances from your $1500/month NYC studio closet
Text very often goes on images, boil that contributor /j
I have no interest in arguing about this. I’m not a GIMP dev and I have no sway over the allocation of their resources.