For texting I recommend using a mobile phone or desktop instant messaging program. While it's not the case with all of them, graphics editing tools tend to have texting utilities as a second-class citizen at best

haha, good one :-D ;-) ;-)

Can you detail what you mean by good texting tool? What features are missing?

It's just tiny. And fiddly. And it likes to go bezerk and reset your font face/size/style settings on a whim if you so much as tickle the wrong key.

It's not intuitive. It's actually possibly my most hated widget in the entire FOSS ecosystem.

And geometric shapes drawing, it is probably the only software that requires using paths for basic stuff.

for the downvoters:

could you please show me a good textting tool plugin for GIMP, then?

you can check their forums & other sites: the textingtools is on top of their discussion lists?

I don't see it at the top of the discussion on the forums I checked.

So can you expand why you think the text tool, is bad?

Before release 3.0: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/gimp-3-0-will-the-text-tool-be-im...

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/1fecr6u/suggestion_im...

Its just the first two results from top of Google.

Maybe the tool was improved in version 3.0, I'm running an older 2.x version. I will check it next time.

The versions were difficult in: - font size applying - random loss / reset settings - there were some issues with the preview when editting - font preview before selection etc.

Both of those are from over a year ago? For future, I wouldn't think that's "top" of any discussion.

The strange font sizes and setting reset was mostly fixed as part of the 2020 massive refactor [0]. There are still some minor inconsistencies between the two font editor panels, but they're being worked on.

Thankfully, you shouldn't have any random setting changes since about 2018 build.

[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/344

I don't understand what you mean by texting tool. Do you mean text rendering? kerning?

Honestly, I think it was just the smiley faces. I didn't downvote.

I would, if I would GIMP use often enough to have the motivation - I use GIMP maybe 2 - 3 times a year.

And thats the irony covered in my post: Even that the source is available didnt motivate someone enough so far to create better version of the built

Nothing stops you from commenting these useless comments.