I am rather irritated at your shenanigans, new GIMP

[foolish]

Ah, yes. New technology, you are a coy bitch. Remember WMP? I am wiser now. I have changed. You have not.

I like GIMP. I really do. It's free, small, pretty fast, robust, intuitive...Even were Photoshop not a proprietary spawn of that imbecilic gathering of yellow eyed hucksters, Adobe (there has never been a time that I have not hated Acrobat Reader), I would almost certainly use GIMP anyway. I am by no means an expert image manipulator type person, but it works quite well for me and I have few complaints. Cue my few complaints.

I have used GIMP 2.2 for a while and developed an amateur level of comfort and familiarity with it. I downloaded 2.6 a little while ago and checked it out a bit, opening files with it a few times, but went no further than that. Just today I decided to be a little less reactionary and actually start using it. 2.6 is by all indications a fine program, with all the humble competence of its predecessors and maybe just a little extra spark of class, too. So far as I know, 2.6 is not the problem.

Its documentation, however, fucking sucks.

So I open something with 2.6 and there's no layers toolbox. Maybe it defaults to off. More likely I accidentally turned it off when I was messing around when I first got it. No problem. 2.2 has a memory for what toolboxes you left open, too, so I'll just go turn on layers up there...hmm. Well, the menu bar looks a bit different, that's to be expected. No dialogue drop down, I'll just have to figure out where they changed that to. Is it over here? No...no. No, not there either.

To hell with me guessing, I'll resort to the help menu...sigh.

no. useless.

Ok. Frustrating, but I know that it actually does make sense and as soon as I figure it out it will be easy and obvious. WMP taught me that much.

google searches for 'where the fuck is the layers box' are similarly fruitless

more fucking useless documentation
 
oh there we go if I just

nope screwed it up even worse

moral of the story I eventually figured it out and yes it is obvious if you happen to know what fucking dockable dialogs are. Goddamnit.

[uynv]

Sometimes I get the feeling that the open source world likes to do a little hazing now and then.    I can just see the makers huddling in a corner somewhere giggling like little elves that fixed the shoes but left out the laces.