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Photoshop for OS X

Posted by michael on from the brighter-colors-and-whiter-whites dept.

MolGOLD writes: "Well, finally OS X users are getting their wish: Adobe has finally made good on their promise to bring native OS X support to their graphical applications. C|Net is running a story on the upcoming version of Photoshop, which will feature native OS X support. Now that Photoshop 7 will run natively under OS X, will we see companies like Macromedia (who also promised native OS X support) hurry along to follow suit?"

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  1. Re:OT: How to set preferences by AirLace · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sure, I could configure it myself. Hell, I could download Slashcode, set it up to use the RSS provided by Slashdot and then tweak the Perl code to my heart's content.

    That's not what it's about. It's all about the defaults. Have you noticed how the Apache news, the BSD news only rarely makes it to the front page? What I'm saying is that both of these topics are more geeky than Apple, which is just a company producing consumer hardware and software, and Adobe which seems not to have any interests in the geek community whatsoever.

    This kind off news should be restricted to the OS X pages by default. Sure, I have no vendetta against proprietary systems and software, but it looks rather silly when Slashdot, most famous for its popularity in the Linux community, posts on its front page an article that has no bearing on its target audience -- programmers, Linux users, geeks.

    This is some photo editing software for an OS designed for the computer-illiterate. Just think about it: What would the response be if an article about Microsoft Photo Editor being released for Microsoft Windows XP made it to the front page? Double standards and hypocracy, I say!

  2. Why hurry? by puckhead · · Score: 1, Troll

    I can't imagine that software companys that sell to the wintel world are in a hurry to release more products for Apple users. The people who use Apple products will wait. They're used to it.

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    Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
  3. Another Dead end by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Great management decision. Hey lets port our software to an OS that has limited appeal, limited sales potential and possibility cause us financial problems in the future with upgrades. Great job photoshop.

  4. Re:Great... Content Control Features For Creators? by Lethyos · · Score: 1, Troll

    There is nothing wrong with content protection. Really. There is something wrong with the way some orgazinations/companies use it, but there's really nothing wrong with the concept. Do you think it's wrong that artists should get paid for their work and have some way to help ensure they get paid?

    This isn't about artists getting paid, you idiot. This is about huge, monopolistic corporations protecting their best interests at the expense of these artists you claim to care so much about. Adobe impliments file protecting schemes, like eBook encryption, to better their position at the expense of the producers and the consumers. Putting a password on a PSD/PS/PDF/whatever doesn't help pay anybody... except Adobe. Think about what Adobe can do with this. Deny you access to your own content if you don't make them happy (think subscription service to Photoshop, for example - using an unlicensed copy, and suddenly all your protected/encrypted Photoshop files are unreadable).

    This doesn't give the artists more control... it gives a big ugly corporation who has already SHOWN they are willing to manhandle people who cross them on these grounds.

    Proprietary software is not acceptable. Closing off access to software and information is not acceptable. Giving up your rights to those with more money in their pockets is not acceptable. HELLO!?

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    Why bother.
  5. Apple Laptop Keyboards Unusable for Unix Users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple Input Devices are Unacceptable to Unix Users

    Apple makes horrible input devices:

    • One Button Mice
    • Hockey Puck Mouse
    • ADB Keyboards

    My main point is about keyboards, but first just a quick note on mice.

    Mice

    Admittedly, one button mice are not much of a problem on desktop machines. You can (for some small extra expense) buy a 3-button USB mouse. Apple's refusal to package a 3-button mouse only raises the effective price of their desktop machines.

    However, on a laptop, a one-button mouse is a hardship. Carrying an extra mouse with you is a real pain. In general, carrying anything extra with a laptop is unacceptable. (You can redefine a couple of keyboard keys to be mouse keys, but then you lose those keyboard keys.)

    Keyboards

    My main point is about keyboards. Apple designs horrible keyboards. ADB keyboards (which are still used on all of Apple's laptops) are unusable to unix users. Even more so than with a mouse, carrying an extra USB keyboard along with your laptop just to make the laptop usable is absolutely unacceptable .

    Proper Keyboard Design

    • When a key is pressed, the keyboard sends a keyPress event.
    • When a key is released, the keyboard sends a keyRelease event.
    • Each key is assigned a different keycode.
    Nothing more, nothing less.

    ADB Keyboard Mis-design

    • When the key to the left of the 'A' (CapsLock) is pressed, the ADB keyboard sends both a keyPress event and a keyRelease event.
    • When the CapsLock key is then released, the ADB keyboard sends NO events.
    • When the CapsLock key is next pressed, the ADB keyboard sends NO events.
    • When the CapsLock key is then released, the ADB keyboard sends both a keyPress event and a keyRelease event.
    This is WRONG ! Apple's ADB keyboards are broken by design.

    Unix Users Cannot Use Apple's ADB Keyboards

    What this means is that unix users who need the key to the left of the 'A' to be a Ctrl key cannot use Apple ADB keyboards. You can easily reprogram the CapsLock key to be a Ctrl key and get rid of the badness of the CapsLock key, but you can't get the required goodness of the Ctrl key to the left of the 'A'.

    Early Apple USB Keyboards Can't Tell Right from Left.

    Apple USB keyboards do not have the CapsLock<->Ctrl problem, but some have another minor problem.

    Early Apple USB keyboards (without the number pad) did not distinguish between the left and right sides of the keyboard; the Shift key on the right side of the keyboard reported LeftShift events just like the Shift key on the left side of the keyboard. In other words, the duplicated keys (like Shift, CapsLock, Ctrl, and Command) on the right side of the keyboard had the same keycodes as the keys on the left side of the keyboard.

    Apple Loses Sales to Unix Users

    All Apple laptops have the horrible broken-by-design ADB keyboards which are unusable to unix users. I want to buy an Apple laptop, but I cannot and will not until Apple builds input devices usable by unix users.