Discussion: GIMP in the default seed

[Erik OShea]

There is also a portable version you can run on a external hard drive.
windows takes a bit longer deepening if you have ssd or hdd.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Erik OShea <erikoshea94 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gimp is really not that bad it is a bit heavy. i use it all the time on
> xubuntu 14.10
>  on my desktop and ubuntu mate 14.10  on my external hard drive. its
> definitely not for the beginner user.
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:29 PM, 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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