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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.
Or does it look like the same thing, cept it uses gtk2 and has some pretty icons?
Why show the whole desktop (complete with terminal windows and task bars) that is 66% dead space when showing off one app that isn't a task bar or a terminal window?
Bad advocacy and then some.
Beep beep.
...and worth every penny.
Seriously, I suppose software like GIMP is good for people who don't have a couple of pennies to rub together, but I won't use free software unless it's better than the commercial stuff.
Multi-step undo, with the steps shown in a floating window? Don't know when it appeared in Photoshop, but I had that in version 6 what, 2 years ago?
This is why Linux will never take over the desktop. Don't chase after commercial software; jump over it. I don't see any software following a track but "Me too! Meeeee tooooo!!!"
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.
It's not a troll.
Of course it's a troll.
The author is asking whether GIMP is doing things that we don't see in commercial tools. I'm interested in this, too.
Like what, exactly? What features are missing from Photoshop that you'd like to see in Gimp, and when did you discuss them with the developers?
How about a completely different toolkit? And are you seriously claiming that every single GTK2 theme in existance is ugly? Several of them are done by professional artists (no 14 year old!)
Dipshit.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
Please fucking use it before commenting. The UI is *very* different. Its actually usable without special training now...
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
Install a window pager?
Boy... try not uninstalling it in the first place, most "non-esoteric" WMs have pagers.
Unless, you're in a win32 world.