Replacing GIMP

[Fredrick]

Other simple image editors are Kolourpaint, gnome-paint and xpaint

I personally prefer kolourpaint as a simple image editor, but I think it
depends on too many KDE libraries to be feasible for inclusion in Xubuntu
On Jul 22, 2011 8:09 AM, "James Freer" <jessejazza3 at aol.co.uk> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno Benitez <gridcube at gmail.com>
> To: xubuntu-devel <xubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:51
> Subject: Replacing GIMP
>
>
> Hello, how is everybody? Hope you are all okay.
>
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> I have always found that having GIMP as the default graphic editor for
> any distribution to be "too much", I am of the opinion that people get
> scare if then come and see so many options and floating menus and etc,
> so I think that Xubuntu (and any linux distro if that matters) should
> have a standard simple graphic editor.
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> I think the best options today are GNU Paint  and Pinta , if anything i
> support the second one.
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> I think that having a simple editor will make people like the system
> better, also integrating it to the screen capture program could be a
> great idea, i know that today on the screencapture program that comes
> whit xubuntu an "open whit..." option appears as part of the options of
> what to do whit the screenshot, it could be really cool if the
> preselected option where "Open whit... [image editor]" and the user can
> choose then if to edit it, add words, cut, mark things, etc, or simply
> save it to a file.
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> well i think thats pretty much it. :) thank you for reading.
> --
> Bruno.-
>
> In response to your post i hope it's ok to volunteer some thoughts.
>
> Having a simple editor that is inline with the xubuntu practice of
> minimal and simplicity is a good idea. But the application does need to
> work effectively.
>
> examples
> a] Bulk rename is fine - effective and fit-for-purpose.... i used to
> use kRename [now redone and rather complicated.
> b] dics burning xfburn and Brasero are fine... no need for k3b.
> c] Ristretto... poor compared with eog. eog is still lightweight but
> more capable.
>
> As for Gimp i find it too advanced for my photo uses and have used
> Imagemagick for sometime now as it fits together well with the album
> generator llgal. Pinta would seem a good idea. I don't know if there is
> another command line editor but in xubuntu the 'openterminal here' that
> comes up in Thunar is ideal [don't think ubuntu had this] for then
> running a comand line app. Just seems to fit nicely with copying pics
> to directories and batch rename, resize and watermark.
>
> yours
> james
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