prokoudine

> Basically, they are completely hostile to feedback from people who've spent their entire career doing CAD.

There's an entire working group in the project comprised of people who have spent their entire career doing CAD and now take care of making FreeCAD get on par with proprietary counterparts.

There are numerous discussions online where users have constructive conversations with FreeCAD devs and provide useful input to mutual benefit.

Would you care to point me to a discussion where an actual FreeCAD contributor is completely hostile to someone like you?

It isn't minor at all :)

It would have to be done someday. We are slowly running out of desktop environments that haven't abandoned X11.

Not exactly a DAW, but check out Giada.

Here is what students around the world will be contributing to GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, and other projects

Anagram by Darkglass Electronics uses Buildroot (via the MOD Build System layer), JACK2 sound server, LV2 plugin host, a neural network amp emulator (open-source NAM and AIDA-X tech), and several free/open plugins (fil4.lv2 for a global equalizer, sooperlooper for a built-in looper, etc.).

I think everyone will benefit from UX contributions.

Hi Alastair :)

Yes, I understand the frustration. The team didn't come up with anything better although maybe they could. I think another suggestion in this thread could very well be posted to GIMP's issue tracker.

2004: STOP TELLING ME I'M GOING TO LOSE MY LAYERS WHEN SAVING TO JPEG!

Also 2004: HOW DO I RECOVER LAYERS FROM JPEG?

2024: STOP TELLING ME YOU ONLY SAVE TO XCF AND I NEED TO EXPORT TO JPEG!

Also 2024: crickets

I'm not kidding you. That is exactly what I've been witnessing all these years. Project loss complaints went from daily routine to almost zero. But there's a price to pay.

It did find its way to the team, thank you :)