Replacing GIMP

[Vincent]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org>wrote:

> **
> On 07/25/2011 08:23 PM, Bruno Benitez wrote:
>
> I do know that there is no such "standard image editor" but if we never
> start finding one, or adding one to our apps then we will never have one, I
> think there should be a "standard image editor" (pinta/gpaint/nathive<http://www.nathive.org/>/other)
> a "professional image editor" (GIMP/others) and then we could have "Image
> viewers" whit some "editing capabilities" (gpicview/gthumb).  I do not
> propose Pinta directly, It looks awesome in my opinion, but it does depend a
> lot on Mono, so if its choosen it wont ment a huge space saver either...
>
> --
> Bruno.-
>
>
> Jarno and Bruno,
>
> please focus your energy in creating the application comparison. A few good
> points to include would be:
>
> 1. What features do we expect an image editor to have, at least?
> 2. What do you think is the learning curve for the different editors?
> 3. How light are the applications?
> 4. How mature are they in development?
>

For Pinta, I can already tell you that definitely isn't stable enough yet.
GIMP unstable does have a single-window mode, but it's still rough around
the edges.


>
> Looking at the history of application comparisons and proposals in Xubuntu,
> it seems that there is a high possibility to get change in the defaults, as
> long as you are willing to work for it, and the rationalizing is sufficient.
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi
>
> P.S. (Just a personal preference:) Let's try to bottom-post (not top-post)
> in the future, as it makes following the threads (especially authors of
> mails) easier in the long run. Thanks!
>
>
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Vincent
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