thanks - I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way. GIMP completly breaks your photoshop habits, because it's so similar yet makes tiny little differences along the way. either embrace the photoshop design philosophy fully - or build your own, distinct and intuitive GUI - now it's just confusing to the point of being useless, whenever I have to quickly edit a picture on linux.
I understand what you mean, since i feel the same way every time i use gimp. However, I don't think you can blame it for breaking your photoshop habits. It is, after all, not photoshop.
The problem I've had (and the most common one I've seen) is that people use gimp 15% of the time and don't learn it's flow, then get frustrated because it's not photoshop's flow.
I've done full-time in both gimp and photoshop and decided, for now, to stick with photoshop. Too many niggly UI issues (like the GP mentioned) in gimp (not that photoshop is great, but it is at least reasonably consistent). Same reason I'm on a Mac instead of Linux (after doing full-time Linux, too).
