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A First Look At The GIMP 2.0
An anonymous reader writes "Brice Burgess has given everyone a good peek at what's coming in 2.0 for the GIMP in his review over on NewsForge. Don't like the old UI? It's gone. All new. There have also been megawumpus improvements in the text tool. Brice says he sees some room for improvement still, but overall he is "very impressed."" (Slashdot and NewsForge are both part of OSDN.) The new text tools are a big step up, though the interface as a whole remains a love-it-or-hate-it thing.
Are any of these features NOT copied from PhotoShop?
-- People who hate Windows use Linux. People who love UNIX use BSD.
That doesn't carry a bunch of GTK baggage with it and a slew of warnings and gotchas?
They can keep that low price because there is no R&D. Sorry to be flamebait, but Gimp still doesn't hold up against Photoshop. A copy is never as good as the original.
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I agree. what changed? the underlying ui code? it looks just as ugly as ever...i suppose its skinnable so i can wrap it in something prettier - perhaps something written by a 14 year old with a lot of time on his hands...
"The highly anticipated version 2.0 of the GIMP, due out next month, will run under Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux"
/RANT
I think their definition of running on OS X is different from OS X users definition is. If I have to install GTK, X-Win (iirc isn't default in 10.3), and perhaps a few other GNU libs to make it work, then it doesn't run on OS X. That simple. Not that I care too much.
RANT
I think one of the big problems with GNU radicals that make the rest of the OSS advocats look bad is their total lack of care for anything not GPL and their irrational insistence that something like GIMP runs on OS X. It doesn't, it runs under X11 which runs on OS X. A big difference.
Burn Hollywood Burn
Dude, sell the cocain and heroin to local schools and use those proceeds to set up a meth lab. Local schools looooove heroin and cocaine (and you can do it as a fundraiser - "Meth Bakesale Today" or something).
Their loss, then.
And here's the deal: if you obnoxious Linux zealots keep responding to points like this with "d00d install linux u l00s3r" and comments about how stupid windows users are, you will continue to miss the point that Linux will survive by gaining mindshare and marketshare, and this will not happen if the majority of Win32 people (yes there are lots of them that don't love Win32, but they like to be productive) have the idea that "wow, the OSS tools on Linux are really hard to use". And that's the impression people get. I would think that if they go to the effort of building and releasing binaries on Win32, they could add some MDI support so people could actually find the product useable without burning through their ALT and TAB keys. My left hand is sore after ever GIMP session on my Win32 box, and I feel like I spend half my time minimizing/restoring windows to try to find the right ones. This is a problem, period. Many solutions, but a good one would be to support MDI, like nearly every other windows app in the world.
Why do so many people assume that Linux based free software developers necessarily WANT to attract a broad Win32 user base? Linux already HAS mindshare and marketshare... more than anyone could ever have hoped for.. more than enough to sustain it's existence and progress. Stop thinking like a capitalist for one second. GIMP was ported to Windows mostly because it was relatively easy to do... not because they wanted to gain marketshare or mindshare.
Furthermore, if you Win32 users want to complain that GIMP doesn't support MDI, well, fuck you. *nix users have virtual desktops by default and THAT is the target audience. Most *nux/GIMP users love the GIMP. Many even feel it is superior to Photoshop. Consider youself lucky that GIMP runs on Windows at all, you ungrateful bastard!
-matthew
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