> copying photshop is also why there's no shape draw tool.
Adobe Photoshop Elements definately includes simple drawing tools.
Adobe Photoshop CS also has simple drawing tools and Photoshop seems to have had them in earlier versions since at least Photoshop 7.
It is long overdue for the GIMP to listen to users and add simple drawing tools. Four years was far too long to go without a stable release. The GIMP 2.0 would have made a bigger impact two years ago but it is just too little too late, but hopefully they can get their act together and GIMP 3.0 will really impress.
If they make it possible to turn off anti-aliasing on the lines and make it easy to snap to angles (22.5 degrees) then the GIMP might just get itself artists who like doing Pixel-Art style graphics and it would make the GIMP usable for drawing small but detailed icons.
If it's anything like the Garbage CD...
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That was just a normal plug, a truly shameless plug would have made sure to ask these people to step up and invest and sponsor some developer time on libwpd!
It almost goes without saying that you should look at the GIMP and perhaps also look at CinePaint. Make sure to compile and inlude more extra plugins. Also make absolutely sure to set the gimp to run using the --no-data and other options to make it as fast as possible.
I would aslo highly recommend Inkscape for Vector Graphics. Inkscape is a recent fork of the Sodipoid codesbase and has a much more user friendly interface.
on long flights I'm glad to have a TV screen at all and I was fairly happy to watch on a tiny screen.
similarly I used to be fairly happy with the postage stamp sized content that RealPlayer is so famous for but these are special cases.
What is special about these cases was that the *price was right*, so cheap its free. I expect that the content produces will price these things too high, provide a crappy service, and declare the market dead in a matter of months (but end up selling short clips as logos and ringtones for cellular phones).
Native themeing of Mozilla is something I have wanted for a long time, it it is just a pity that it didn't happen sooner before so much work went into Gecko+GTK browsers.
I actually liked the whole Mozilla Suite and I like that there was have been two major stable release (1.0 and 1.4 hopefuly 1.6 soon too).
I wont be ready to switcht Firebird for long time and I wish they could have folded the improvments back in and made things into proper official plugins if they felt the need to take things out. it would take far too much messing if I tried to use Firebird and find and install all the plugins for things I miss (and pray that they are actually usable). It also causes me big problems to recommend unstable software because if anything goes wrong in any way it will be my problem to fix.
Please dont have a default dialog that encourages devepers to add lots of extra widgets.
I predict it will get very ugly very fast. Huge cluttered dialogs here we come.
I stongly believe there should be an options button at the bottom of the dialog to take users to a seperate window for toggline all sorts of extra settings and that developers should as much as possible avoid cluttering the dialog and instead aim for clarity and simplicity.
the debian IRC list is populated by unpleasant unhelpful assholes.
Not all IRC is that way but far too many channels boards and mailing lists are populated by arrogant fucks that lack the humility to know that there is always someone smarter than they are or simply put their intelligence to work on different kinds of problems.
hopefully as Linux gets more mainstream the ranting of a few beligerrant assholes will be smothered by the calm wise words of cooler heads.
gradually open source programs will get better at talking to each other but there is only so much time in the day and developers tend to place a higher priority on making their application better of itself rather than working on improved compatibility.
Help testing the SXC support in Gnumeric would be appreciated, Jody has only gotten one bug report so far.
GTK in one nice bundle. Make sure you let developers of GTK applications for windows know that you want them to build against a shared GTK and save you from having to install multiple copies. Pan and Gaim already do this.
An ideal installer for Gnumeric would do something like what the GIMP does and bundle GIMP+GTK into one.exe and install GTK if necessary. (for users who already have GTK for windows then smaller installer without GTK might be made available).
What would be pretty cool would be if they used a virus to run the Protein Folding at Home project and use a Virus to help cure a Virus!
la la la.
still waiting for a genuinely destructive virus, randomly mailing out microsoft office files was probably one of the more interesting and malicious viruses of recent years.
RTF is probably what they use for document interchange. it is what just about every other word processor uses. microsoft wordpad does not even have export capability for binary word docs, it just exports RTF renamed to.doc
Previous articles on the Playstation Linux kit mentioned the importance of developers. Training people to learn the custom hardware and specialised SDKs costs a fortune.
I belive Sony are smart enough not to sell below cost, so Linux kit just creates good will rather than lost profits. If people with the linux kit buy even one Game Sony are probably doing well.
And I believe playstations have been used as cheap hardware in renderfarms.
There were notions of building clusters using Playststations (the defunct Wulfstation cluster project) all this creates goodwill towards Sony and a few extra sales.
I recently had the misfortune of trying to get some work done on one of these damned things.
All I wanted to do was verify that the web pages I was producing for clients would be viewable on the Pocket PC 2003.
Unfortunately the Pocket PC SDK claims to need version 4 of the Embedded Visual Tools (EVT, a free Visual C++ for developing pocket PC applictions) but only version 3 of the tools are freely available.
This monstrosity requires over 300MB of disk space, and at least Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service pack 2.
All this so I can check a few web pages work correctly with their lousey browser!
If microsoft want people to provide content for their damned handheld they should provide a copy of Pocket PC that runs on Windows (as an IE Plugin?) to make testing easier for web designers who actually do their job properly and test these things.
Mozilla wont be on handhelds any time soon but to have better chances in the embedded space the will have to make things easier for content providers who are targetting embedded devices.
Opera are about the only group that have gotten this right by providing a "Small Screen" mode (shift + F11) which makes testing for small screens a whole lot easier.
I cant say about solutions such as Qtopia or GPE, but at least in their cases you have the source code so testing for thier browser from your desktop shouldn't be too hard. GPE is using Dillo which makes testing relatively easy.
Microsoft are making a lot of mistakes by making things difficult for content providers. Providing content for these devices is where the money will be, the users have the pay mentality of mobile phone users and producing content should be as cheap or cheaper than producing web content.
Whoever makes the creation and delivery of this content easier they have a good chance of fighting off microsoft. I can only hope it will be open source solutions levereging the power and integration of open source servers and tools and providing enough added value to convince manufacturers to switch to linux on their handhelds.
Getting user feedback is easy. Getting useful user feedback of the kind you actually want is hard.
This would be ideal for something like the Google image search, where there are a large amount of broken links and the required user feedback is fairly simple: Broken Link. Based on that user feedback Google could check the page to verify if the link is in fact broken. The cornerstone of any rating system like this is trust. While it might be useful for improving your own search, I really dont see how this kind of system could be shared among a community and scale properly. I cant imagine it would hold up for very long without a very complicated trust metric.
Why rewrite in an entirely different language? It would make far more sense to work on the Visual Basic code and get it to work off of the Star Basic Engine from StarOffice.
In fact now that Real Basic is available for Linux, as well as Windows and Macintosh, RealBasic looks like a really good choice if you want to make this game more portable. http://www.realbasic.com/
As for the database the best idea would probably be to try and upgrade it to work with any database that understands ODBC.
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> copying photshop is also why there's no shape draw tool.
Adobe Photoshop Elements definately includes simple drawing tools.
Adobe Photoshop CS also has simple drawing tools and Photoshop seems to have had them in earlier versions since at least Photoshop 7.
It is long overdue for the GIMP to listen to users and add simple drawing tools. Four years was far too long to go without a stable release. The GIMP 2.0 would have made a bigger impact two years ago but it is just too little too late, but hopefully they can get their act together and GIMP 3.0 will really impress.
If they make it possible to turn off anti-aliasing on the lines and make it easy to snap to angles (22.5 degrees) then the GIMP might just get itself artists who like doing Pixel-Art style graphics and it would make the GIMP usable for drawing small but detailed icons.
it will be Garbage?
Anyway common usage of litigious means it doesn't make sense to use the word that way.
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Inkscape is great for SVG!
That was just a normal plug, a truly shameless plug would have made sure to ask these people to step up and invest and sponsor some developer time on libwpd!
It almost goes without saying that you should look at the GIMP and perhaps also look at CinePaint. Make sure to compile and inlude more extra plugins. Also make absolutely sure to set the gimp to run using the --no-data and other options to make it as fast as possible.
I would aslo highly recommend Inkscape for Vector Graphics. Inkscape is a recent fork of the Sodipoid codesbase and has a much more user friendly interface.
on long flights I'm glad to have a TV screen at all and I was fairly happy to watch on a tiny screen.
similarly I used to be fairly happy with the postage stamp sized content that RealPlayer is so famous for but these are special cases.
What is special about these cases was that the *price was right*, so cheap its free.
I expect that the content produces will price these things too high, provide a crappy service, and declare the market dead in a matter of months (but end up selling short clips as logos and ringtones for cellular phones).
How about we try that again ;)
SCO "Bunch of assholes"
If enough slashdotters link to SCO using the words Bunch of assholes we might be able to replicate the success of talentless hack or miserable failure or Weapons of Mass Destruction
Are there gtk+2 builds of Mozilla Seamonkey?
Native themeing of Mozilla is something I have wanted for a long time, it it is just a pity that it didn't happen sooner before so much work went into Gecko+GTK browsers.
I actually liked the whole Mozilla Suite and I like that there was have been two major stable release (1.0 and 1.4 hopefuly 1.6 soon too).
I wont be ready to switcht Firebird for long time and I wish they could have folded the improvments back in and made things into proper official plugins if they felt the need to take things out. it would take far too much messing if I tried to use Firebird and find and install all the plugins for things I miss (and pray that they are actually usable).
It also causes me big problems to recommend unstable software because if anything goes wrong in any way it will be my problem to fix.
Please dont have a default dialog that encourages devepers to add lots of extra widgets.
I predict it will get very ugly very fast.
Huge cluttered dialogs here we come.
I stongly believe there should be an options button at the bottom of the dialog to take users to a seperate window for toggline all sorts of extra settings and that developers should as much as possible avoid cluttering the dialog and instead aim for clarity and simplicity.
And in the case of DVD's English speakers are kept waiting for the Dubbing or subtitling needed for the rest of Europe.
sucks!
the debian IRC list is populated by unpleasant unhelpful assholes.
Not all IRC is that way but far too many channels boards and mailing lists are populated by arrogant fucks that lack the humility to know that there is always someone smarter than they are or simply put their intelligence to work on different kinds of problems.
hopefully as Linux gets more mainstream the ranting of a few beligerrant assholes will be smothered by the calm wise words of cooler heads.
or even better the kid from 'Stand by Me'
http://www.gnome-db.org/
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Gnome Database project
mergeant: Front-end for database administrators and database application developers.
Screenshots of Mergeant
http://www.gnome-db.org/screenshots.php
http://www.gnome-db.org/images/screenshots/merge
"Thank you. Please come again."
- Obligatory Simpsons Reference
If you are looking for something simpler you might like to try GPaint a simple paint program by Andy Tai.
During usability testing a user asks:
which key is the any key?
The first developer says, "It's the space key of course."
The second developer responds, "What do you mean! It is the Enter key of course!"
that forgets Mr. T and the other Ate My Balls websites.
That joke lasted quite a while.
gradually open source programs will get better at talking to each other but there is only so much time in the day and developers tend to place a higher priority on making their application better of itself rather than working on improved compatibility.
Help testing the SXC support in Gnumeric would be appreciated, Jody has only gotten one bug report so far.
http://www.dropline.net/gtk/.
GTK in one nice bundle.
Make sure you let developers of GTK applications for windows know that you want them to build against a shared GTK and save you from having to install multiple copies. Pan and Gaim already do this.
An ideal installer for Gnumeric would do something like what the GIMP does and bundle GIMP+GTK into one
(for users who already have GTK for windows then smaller installer without GTK might be made available).
Forced Grid computing, hrrm.
What would be pretty cool would be if they used a virus to run the Protein Folding at Home project and use a Virus to help cure a Virus!
la la la.
still waiting for a genuinely destructive virus, randomly mailing out microsoft office files was probably one of the more interesting and malicious viruses of recent years.
RTF is probably what they use for document interchange. .doc
it is what just about every other word processor uses.
microsoft wordpad does not even have export capability for binary word docs, it just exports RTF renamed to
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You hit the nail on the head.
Previous articles on the Playstation Linux kit mentioned the importance of developers. Training people to learn the custom hardware and specialised SDKs costs a fortune.
I belive Sony are smart enough not to sell below cost, so Linux kit just creates good will rather than lost profits. If people with the linux kit buy even one Game Sony are probably doing well.
And I believe playstations have been used as cheap hardware in renderfarms.
There were notions of building clusters using Playststations (the defunct Wulfstation cluster project) all this creates goodwill towards Sony and a few extra sales.
I recently had the misfortune of trying to get some work done on one of these damned things.
All I wanted to do was verify that the web pages I was producing for clients would be viewable on the Pocket PC 2003.
Unfortunately the Pocket PC SDK claims to need version 4 of the Embedded Visual Tools (EVT, a free Visual C++ for developing pocket PC applictions) but only version 3 of the tools are freely available.
This monstrosity requires over 300MB of disk space, and at least Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service pack 2.
All this so I can check a few web pages work correctly with their lousey browser!
If microsoft want people to provide content for their damned handheld they should provide a copy of Pocket PC that runs on Windows (as an IE Plugin?) to make testing easier for web designers who actually do their job properly and test these things.
Mozilla wont be on handhelds any time soon but to have better chances in the embedded space the will have to make things easier for content providers who are targetting embedded devices.
Opera are about the only group that have gotten this right by providing a "Small Screen" mode (shift + F11) which makes testing for small screens a whole lot easier.
I cant say about solutions such as Qtopia or GPE, but at least in their cases you have the source code so testing for thier browser from your desktop shouldn't be too hard. GPE is using Dillo which makes testing relatively easy.
Microsoft are making a lot of mistakes by making things difficult for content providers.
Providing content for these devices is where the money will be, the users have the pay mentality of mobile phone users and producing content should be as cheap or cheaper than producing web content.
Whoever makes the creation and delivery of this content easier they have a good chance of fighting off microsoft. I can only hope it will be open source solutions levereging the power and integration of open source servers and tools and providing enough added value to convince manufacturers to switch to linux on their handhelds.
Getting user feedback is easy.
Getting useful user feedback of the kind you actually want is hard.
This would be ideal for something like the Google image search, where there are a large amount of broken links and the required user feedback is fairly simple: Broken Link.
Based on that user feedback Google could check the page to verify if the link is in fact broken.
The cornerstone of any rating system like this is trust. While it might be useful for improving your own search, I really dont see how this kind of system could be shared among a community and scale properly. I cant imagine it would hold up for very long without a very complicated trust metric.
Why rewrite in an entirely different language?
It would make far more sense to work on the Visual Basic code and get it to work off of the Star Basic Engine from StarOffice.
In fact now that Real Basic is available for Linux, as well as Windows and Macintosh, RealBasic looks like a really good choice if you want to make this game more portable.
http://www.realbasic.com/
As for the database the best idea would probably be to try and upgrade it to work with any database that understands ODBC.