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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."
When can we expect 48 bit color support and color management? Is adding buttons and screwing up the UI even further the only two things GIMP developers care about?
I mean, I know the mantra, you get what you pay for, and if you don't like it - here's the code, roll your own, submit a patch. But come on. Who the fuck needs shortcut editor?
If you want to consider a closed source proprietary application a standard... I suppose that's your choice. I won't consider such a thing to be a standard. I won't consider anything bound about by patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc. in such a way that it's illegal for someone else to duplicate it to be a standard.
Now The Gimp could certainly be a lot more like PhotoShop without being in danger of violation of protected space, but there's no particular reason that it SHOULD. The Gimp is quite useable as it is, and I find the Photoshop interface difficult to use and understand after using The Gimp for awhile. (Well, I also use Deneba Canvas, which is a lot more similar to Photoshop, intentionally...they had a better design, but were trying to attract PhotoShop users. I don't think they succeeded. But I find them FAR superior to PhotoShop. Deneba Canvas is rather like a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator, and as it has a smooth transition between the pieces, it's superior to either, or even both together.)
OTOH, I am talking about Canvas8. I haven't ended up using Canvas9, even though I have it also installed. (In the case of Canvas9 I'm talking about the Mac version. I've dropped using MSWind.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Looks like I got last post too (woohoo)