[ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

[Johnathon Tinsley]

----- "Gavin Ford" <revford at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:51:24PM +0000, Jai Harrison wrote:
> > Is this is what the effects of a difficult user interface in the
> GIMP are?
> 
> I really like the interface on The GIMP and it does everything I need,
> but there
> are some features that photographers working in print need that the
> GIMP doesn't
> yet have.
> 
> Why google are spending money on WINE and Photoshop rather than adding
> those 
> features to GIMP I don't know.
> 
> It would seem to me that adding these features to GIMP would provide
> them to 
> everyone for free forever, while propping up WINE+Photoshop is only
> good for 
> owners of the current version of Photoshop.
> 


By design, WINE is complete when it can replicate and translate all of windows programming system signals. By doing this, google will make the entire WINE base a bit more stable, rather than less, which means this will probably help many more programs become more compatible than just Photoshop.


Johnathon

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