apps choice for Ubuntu and installation choices [Was: cross-platform virus]

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 15:14 -0700, Brian Burger wrote:
> The GIMP isn't perfect, and most users probably don't use more than a
> fraction of it's abilities, but in the absence of any other image
> editor, the GIMP needs to be included.

gthumb is great for simple image editing.  I had some large pics to
scale down the other day and fired up the Gimp and in the time it took
for the GIMP to load (about 1 minute) I had discovered Gthumb and was
finished scaling down my pic.

Lee