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GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04

Posted by Soulskill on from the should-have-used-the-fireman's-carry dept.

kai_hiwatari writes "It looks like the Ubuntu developers consider GIMP to be too powerful for a normal desktop user. They are removing it from the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04. Among the reasons cited are that the UI is too complex, it takes up room on the disc, and 'desktop users just want to edit photos and they can do that in F-Spot.''"

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  1. Download size by tepples · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's still a click away in the package manager.

    One click and five hours of waiting for people stuck in a country that doesn't recognize a "right to broadband". And is GIMP still in main (stuff for which Canonical sells support), or has it been moved to universe (free software ported to Ubuntu for which Canonical does not sell support)?

  2. Re:Yep by jedidiah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No. The real problem is that Gimp doesn't try to be some sort of cloned Windows interface.

    That's all there is too it. It doesn't try to make itself look like some Windows app that everyone is already used to so lazy twits start whining.

    GIMP is the perfect example of why Linux (sadly) generally needs to pander to Windows-refugee ingrates.

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  3. Re:Where does this leave GIMP? by Hikeeba! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My comment about the code wasn't based on seeing GIMP's code at all, because I've never looked at it.

    It was about the final product which I use that I am commenting on. It's not difficult to image how horrible the GIMP code looks though based on the final result. Maybe the commercial code is also badly written, but that doesn't affect me in any way apart from my use of the interface.

    The quality control is easy to assess without seeing any code at all, since quality of code isn't the important factor, it's quality of the user experience.

    Maybe you made your comment because the GIMP code is elegant and beautiful, but then I don't care since the product is horrible. The developers might want to focus more on the user and less on code quality then...

    Either way, my opinion of GIMP has nothing to do with it being open source or not.

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  4. Re:Curiously... by sjmacko29 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well... That's one way to make sure she never dates.