The GIMP Gets Ready for 2.2

An anonymous contributor writes "As promised, this time it didn't take another 3 years for a new stable GIMP version to be released. 8 months after GIMP 2.0 hit the road, GIMP 2.2 is almost done. The GIMP developers released 2.2-pre2 today and unless any major problems show up, the GIMP 2.2.0 release is going to follow later this month. The GIMP Wiki has a comprehensive list of new features in GIMP 2.2 and here are some screenshots of the development version."

Comments

Re:You zealots are so funny

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

GTK doesn't seem to have these problems on other platforms afterall.

Unless you're used to QT, then GTK sucks on any platform...

Re:GIMP on Windows vs Linux

[Mornelithe]

Yeah, that's way better than:

"Give me a sandwich with prosciutto and bacon!"
"All I have is regular ham."
"Fuck you! You can only make shit sandwiches with regular ham!"

Those Gimp developers are real assholes.

Re:Gimp developers afraid to try Photoshop?!

[SimHacker]

Why does the Apache project strive to produce the best http server in the world, which successfully kicks IIS's ass, while the Gimp project is "just for fun"?

Why does the Eclipse project strive to produce the best Java development environment in the world, that successfully runs circles around the other free and commercial IDE's available, while it's taboo to compare Gimp to Photoshop?

How many of the Eclipse developers have never touched another IDE before, and refuse to look at the competitive commercial products?

Are the Apache, Eclipse and GCC developers into it just for fun, or are they into it because they hate the idea of using software that's inferior to Microsoft IIS, Sun's Java IDE, or Microsoft Visual C++?

Why is it that the Gimp developers are just into it for the fun, and are afraid to compete with Photoshop, when other open source projects have proven not only that it's possible but also extremely practical and rewarding to kick the ass proprietary products?

-Don