Discussion: GIMP in the default seed

[Peter Rauhut]

Agreed. The learning curve is too steep for a default editor. If there
isn't a good replacement for a default editor, it should be dropped.
On Jan 28, 2015 4:37 PM, "Jackson Doak" <noskcaj at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I'd prefer we dropped gimp, it's a bit too big and complex for the default
> install. maybe a lighter editor would be nice though.
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Since we are discussing about other choices in the default seed already,
>> it feels like the perfect time to bring yet another discussion to the table:
>>
>> Do we want to keep shipping GIMP?
>>
>> For some background, the team has discussed the issue [1] and gone
>> through various simpler alternatives [2] for GIMP a few times* in the past,
>> but no suitable candidate was found.
>>
>> Do we think there is a suitable, light and easy-to-use alternative for
>> GIMP now? Should we simply drop GIMP altogether and not replace it?
>>
>> Discuss.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Pasi
>>
>> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2011-July/007864.html
>> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Oneiric/
>> DefaultImageEditor
>> * Most of this isn't archived in an easy-to-access way
>>
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