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A Gimp In Photoshop's Clothing
comforteagle writes "Scott Moschella, from Attack of the Show!, set out to make The Gimp a little friendlier with a simple UI make-over, creating GimpShop. Despite an outcry from some developers, users have picked it up with passion. Howard Wen has interviewed Scott about why he did this. From the interview: 'I've always thought that GIMP was just as powerful as Photoshop. My way of proving it was to make GIMP work as close to Photoshop as I possibly could, given my limited programming experience.' As more Windows/Mac users discover powerful open source applications are they bound (slashdot disc.) to make more discoveries of this kind?" Update: 09/16 18:48 GMT by Z : Some users have pointed out this is basically an update to a previous discussion we've had. Link added for the sake of completeness.
On what you call friendly. I'm sure some people out there would prefer a graphics editor without a GUI.
As a fan of OSS I'm required to tell you that you should do it yourself. We're trying to make software that has millions of hidden features! User interface is for wimps (gimps?) lol
Free too? /passes out
I'd figure someone as old as you (uid 56!!) would know that it's "/me passes out"...
AFAIK there was only one developer who showed he was a little dismayed. Also, GIMPShop only makes the GIMP a little friendlier to those who are used to the unfriendly interface of Photoshop.
If you use every single feature and lots of optimizations, and maybe even hack the code yourself, you might be upset at the GUI overlay.
... and press it ... and ... see nothing happened.
But, if like most people, you just want to use it and not struggle with things, it works fine.
Kind of like how MSFT noticed a lot of people were using WordPad or NotePad because Word had too many darned features that people got lost and they only wanted to write a short note, so they stopped fighting that and stopped making the menus way way too complex.
Most people don't use everything. I've got buttons in my car I've never pressed, for example.
Like this one here marked "Auto Eject". Now, to the casual user you'd think it was one of those James Bond things and if you pressed it you would be ejected from the car, but I know better since they'd never let something like that in a basic sports coupe, so I'll just lean over here
[explosion]
[seat ejects]
[seat crashes in pond]
[bubbles appear after poster drowns since he foolishly had his seatbelt on and couldn't get it off after submersion]
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-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
Does this make it PIMP???
Tomorrow: The return of the Look & Feel Lawsuit.
Stay tuned.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Calling it "GimpShop", though, is just begging for a (fully deserved) lawsuit. He might as well call it Microsoft Donald Duck Big Mac GIMP.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Am I hallucinating or did that GIMP icon on the slashdot page just twitch its eyes? creepy, that dog thing is watching me...
Hmm... so now GIMP has a photoshop-like interface. Sounds good, because where it is right now, only a CLI could be worse.
How do you get a +5 Off topic?
-PMP-
How the hell did they manage that? I mean, this interview is only three days old! Mein Gott, the Slashdot editors continue to impress. Now if they can just post an interview with Linus and Gates in 2015, it would be perfect.
Can you help out?
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I agree, I always thought The Gimp was such a gay name.
Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
Are you kidding?
Of COURSE the mentally retarded won't be offended by the name "The GIMP".
They're simply too dumb to get the insult. They require the assistance of the inane to be offended.
Leave them alone (both the GIMP developers and the gimps themselves), and let them either code or compete in the Special Olympics.
Try watching "Mind of Mencia" for a clue.
It's after lunch on Friday, and I lack the energy for extended IANALity over this. But what I'm curious about is why the eleventy-third person to start in with "PaintShop! PaintShop!" is so indignant over my supposed redundancy...?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
No, for writing a letter, the path is
NotePad -> Emacs -> Jed -> Vim
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