Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

[Imre Tuske]

I by no means wanted to degrade his (or anyone else's) work. If I had more
experience of opensource-style sw development, I'd contribute as well. The
OS "spirit" is a very respectable thing, indeed. But my opinion is that
unfortunately this kind of development is not really suited for graphics
programs: there doesn't seem to be many people who are experts in _both_
graphics and programming. But that's just personal opinion (I wish I was
wrong! :)).

imre


On 12/24/05, Clint Tinsley <clintin at linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> I don't pretend to be a Gimp expert but I do know a few and they came from
> Photoshop.  They tend to put the Gimp on equal footing with PS. There are
> differences, but like Linux, there are different ways of accomplishing the
> same task, all involve some learning.  And you can't beat the price of the
> Gimp and that it is open source which is what enables folks like Scott
> Moschella's to do what he did in creating GimpShop. And in the opens source
> spirit, he releases the source so others can participate in its development.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Imre Tuske"
> To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions"
> Subject: Re: Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?
> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:12:51 +0100
>
> Unfortunately that doesn't help Gimp being any better than about Photoshop
> 4.0 :/ It's still Gimp. Just a few examples:
>
> - in Photoshop you don't have to care about layer boundaries (it
> automatically extends if needed, etc), in Gimp you do. annoying annoying
> annoying.
> - I never really grasped the idea of "floating selection", except that
> it's useless; fortunately it was removed long ago (from PS, not from Gimp).
> - In PS, font layers can be edited WYSIWYG-style, and can be transformed
> without converting it to bitmap first (basically it's like a vector layer);
>
> Btw, Photoshop also had/has it's stupidities; they needed 8 versions to
> more or less sort them out.
>
> Actually, Gimp wouldn't need any major surgery, just some
> small-but-practical improvements (like the above) to be a fully competent
> competent :) Unfortunately just rearranging the menu layout (AFAIK Gimpshop
> is only that) is not enough.
>
>
> imre
>
>
>
> On 12/23/05, Matt Egger <matt.egger at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI
>
>
> http://www.gimpshop.net/
>
>
> On 12/22/05, Clint Tinsley <clintin at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> > Somebody has done this already ... Would have to search for it.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sasha Tsykin" <stsykin at gmail.com>
> > To: imre.tuske at gmail.com , ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?
> > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:35:51 +1100
> >
> > >
> > > Hey all, I don't know if you've heard but somebody is making a gui
> > > for the GIMP meant to be as close a match for photoshop as
> > > possible. Just my two cents.
> > >
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