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I wish GIMP had a full UI redesign like Blender, it could work as a Photoshop replacement for many use cases but... Jesus it's non intuitive, flawed and it mixes opposing design principles all the time.
There was a project that renamed it to a less controversial name and updated the UI to more closely resemble modern photo manipulation tools, but they've stopped working on it before a major release.
EDIT: There's PhotoGIMP by Diolinux, a Brazilian Linux YouTube channel with a really nice host. This is a set of plugins and configuration files that try to ease the transition from Photoshop to GIMP for newcomers. It's certainly good, but as an add-on, it can't actually fix all issues with GIMP.
Gimp's problem is not so much the UI, but that it has fallen way behind Photoshop in terms of features. Fixing up the UI wouldn't hurt, but you'd still be stuck with a graphics app that's 20 years behind the competition. It would need a heck of a lot more work to catch up.
You're thinking of Glimpse o believe. And yes gimp really needs a change. Krita isn't bad but not good for more graphic design oriented tasks. It's type tools are awful.
Are there other open source projects near feature parity with GIMP, though?
There are certainly other commercial software, like Affinity, and certainly some shady Photoshop clones like Photopea (and it does work really well) but nothing like GIMP, as far as I'm aware.
Stuart Semple’s company has something cooking. I have Affinity pirated, and I’m going to see which one I prefer before spending the money on either.
It's been my understanding that the general populace has been asking the developers of GIMP for years now to overhaul the UI and make it much friendlier to use, and the answer came back, "No, stop asking."
The biggest problem with a GIMP UI overhaul is that the core team is only 2 people.
That's fairly common with open source projects. How do those two people treat contributors? How do they react to pull requests?