Go to the Preferences dialog in GIMP then and choose the "Small" theme. Perhaps you like that better. If you are still not satisfied, feel free to write your own GIMP theme to change the appearance of the user interface.
Well, the real point is that the author has no clue about text rendering. Have a close look at the image that compares text rendering of GIMP and Photoshop. This image compares unhinted text rendering (PS) with hinted text rendering (GIMP). If the author prefers unhinted text rendering, he should have unchecked the "Hinting" option of the text tool.
The GIMP 2.0 text tool has almost all features of the GIMP FreeType plug-in plus a few more. There is really not much need for this plug-in nowadays. It's still sometimes useful but for almost all text rendering needs, the default text tool is the best choice. Note that the text tool also uses the Freetype library to render the glyphs.
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This one (in Sweden) has the tarballs mirrored as well: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gimp/gimp/v2.0/
All you need to do is to type "port install gimp2" into your Mac OS X terminal.
Well, you need to have installed darwinports beforehand. But since darwinports allows to create image files also, it's just a matter of time until someone creates that file you can drop onto the finder and start using gimp.
Your arguments are so badly researched, it is obvious how much of a troll you are.
Well, there is a file called ps-menurc that is shipped with The GIMP. You take this file and copy it over your ~/.gimp-1.3/menurc and voila, PS keybindings.
Usually just a matter of configuring your taskbar to group windows from one application. GIMP sets all the window manager hints that are needed to do this. It's also trivial to configure your WM to iconify all GIMP windows if one is iconified and whatever other feature you would want. Why should the GIMP developers go through the hassle of implementing window management themselves when the tools to do the job are all out there already?
I was hoping that it would no longer clutter up my task bar with a block for every single subwindow it creates (including palettes, controls, toolbars, etc).
But that's exactly what happened. Palettes, controls, toolbars can now all be grouped in one or two dock windows. Perhaps you should try the interface before complaining.
Set the X resolution independent from the Y resolution and turn off Dot-for-Dot mode. This is one of the things that GIMP could do years before PS (just like multiple undo).
I don't see how gimp-python is aging. It is part of the GIMP-2.0 prerelease. gimp-perl is also not abandoned. It just has been moved into its own module to make it easier to maintain. We will probably do this for pygimp at some point and the plan is to move script-fu into it's own package as well. This doesn't mean that these language bindings won't be available to you. It's just a matter of doing an extra click in your installer of choice.
There is an easy way. The GIMP is translatable using the gettext framework. Actually it is already translated into a large number of languages. This effort is coordinated by the GNOME Translation Project. The file README.i18n as found in the GIMP source tree gives you further information on how to contribute.
That's why we have put a lot of effort into making GIMP-2.0 work well on multi-screen setups. Not only does it respect monitor borders on Xinerama setups, it also works on X-servers configured to have multiple screens. GIMP-2.0 allows you to move docks and image windows between X11 screens and GIMP's session management remembers this setting. This allows you to prepare a very convenient multi-screen setup.
Well, it's documented in the README and has been around for some years. But of course you can't expect users to read this file and we know that.
What about contributing to the documentation or send some code that allows to configure keybindings from the preferences dialog. This would certainly be welcomed.
Unlike PS which actually has (or used to have) a limitation on the number of layers, GIMP always allowed to use you as many layers as you liked. Of course there are limits (as always) but you will run out of memory before you hit them.
What you saw was the problem that the PSD import plug-in used to have a maximum number of layers that it could handle. This problem has been addressed. Please note that this only affected import of PS files. That's a lot better than what PS since it limits the number of GIMP layers you can import to zero.
GIMP is actually a lot superiour than PS when it comes to "straighten" an image. You should try the Corrective mode of the transform tools. It makes the tools work the other way around. If you need to rotate a scan, choose "Corrective" and align the grid with a line that's supposed to be horizontal. GIMP will do the appropriate rotation for you. This also works for perspective transformations which makes it the ideal tool for correcting perspective distortions.
BTW, there is Auto-Levels as well and the Crop functionality you are describing is considered to be done at some point.
One reason is probably that some people find these things very useful. The other is that they come for free because of the object-oriented design of the GIMP core. Except from a few lines to create a menu entry for it, there wasn't any code written for this specific fonts palette. It's just a generic view on a container of GIMP things.
I'd be happy to learn about what other way you would like to suggest since all you said so far is that "some other way" would be preferable. And you still didn't try the application. You can't really judge this from a screenshot. Please do also keep in mind that these screenshots do not necessarily represent a working environment. Instead they are arranged to show off as much of the user interface as possible. Usually you'd group the fonts selector in a dock with the brushes, palettes, patterns,... selectors. Also, as I said earlier, there is another way to select the font. In the text tool there's a preview of the selected font. Click it and a font selection menu pops up to allow for quick access to all your fonts. Similar widgets exist to choose brushes, patterns, gradients,... Actually of course this popup widget is again generic and works for all GIMP things.
You should perhaps try it first instead of judging from a screenshot. These palettes are configurable, you don't have to use them. If you need them, you open one and have GIMP remember this setting. You can even have multiple configurations, each configured for a specific task. Almost all things can be choosen from popup menus or optionally from palettes (or docks as GIMP calls them). So please, give it a try before you bitch about it.
The point is that you can do display color calibration using the GIMP's framework for color display modules (see http://developer.gimp.org/api/1.3/libgimpwidgets/G impColorDisplay.html). There is a soft-proof display filter implemented as such a module. Writing a monitor calibration module based on lcms (or some other color management library) is a piece of cake. I am pretty sure such a module will show up very soon and might even be included into 2.0.
They should consider to do so since librsvg renders their speed case (worldcup.svg) 2 times faster (3 seconds on a 1.2GHz PIII compared to the 6 seconds they claim for a 1.4GHz Athlon).
GIMP-1.2 doesn't have this option. Support for GIMP user interface themes (in addition to GTK+ themes) has been added in the 1.3 series. The theming support is still a bit rough but in general it allows you make GIMP look different (for example more compact) than other GTK+2 applications on your desktop.
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Go to the Preferences dialog in GIMP then and choose the "Small" theme. Perhaps you like that better. If you are still not satisfied, feel free to write your own GIMP theme to change the appearance of the user interface.
Well, the real point is that the author has no clue about text rendering. Have a close look at the image that compares text rendering of GIMP and Photoshop. This image compares unhinted text rendering (PS) with hinted text rendering (GIMP). If the author prefers unhinted text rendering, he should have unchecked the "Hinting" option of the text tool.
The GIMP 2.0 text tool has almost all features of the GIMP FreeType plug-in plus a few more. There is really not much need for this plug-in nowadays. It's still sometimes useful but for almost all text rendering needs, the default text tool is the best choice. Note that the text tool also uses the Freetype library to render the glyphs.
This one (in Sweden) has the tarballs mirrored as well: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gimp/gimp/v2.0/
Try the Small theme from the GIMP preferences dialog then. You will certainly find it useful with your screen resolution.
All you need to do is to type "port install gimp2" into your Mac OS X terminal.
Well, you need to have installed darwinports beforehand. But since darwinports allows to create image files also, it's just a matter of time until someone creates that file you can drop onto the finder and start using gimp.
Your arguments are so badly researched, it is obvious how much of a troll you are.
Well, there is a file called ps-menurc that is shipped with The GIMP. You take this file and copy it over your ~/.gimp-1.3/menurc and voila, PS keybindings.
Usually just a matter of configuring your taskbar to group windows from one application. GIMP sets all the window manager hints that are needed to do this. It's also trivial to configure your WM to iconify all GIMP windows if one is iconified and whatever other feature you would want. Why should the GIMP developers go through the hassle of implementing window management themselves when the tools to do the job are all out there already?
Go to the Preferences Dialog and select the Small theme.
I was hoping that it would no longer clutter up my task bar with a block for every single subwindow it creates (including palettes, controls, toolbars, etc).
But that's exactly what happened. Palettes, controls, toolbars can now all be grouped in one or two dock windows. Perhaps you should try the interface before complaining.
Set the X resolution independent from the Y resolution and turn off Dot-for-Dot mode. This is one of the things that GIMP could do years before PS (just like multiple undo).
Here's what you get if you google for "Photoshop keybindings for The GIMP":
http://epierce.freeshell.org/gimp/gimp_ps.php
I don't see how gimp-python is aging. It is part of the GIMP-2.0 prerelease. gimp-perl is also not abandoned. It just has been moved into its own module to make it easier to maintain. We will probably do this for pygimp at some point and the plan is to move script-fu into it's own package as well. This doesn't mean that these language bindings won't be available to you. It's just a matter of doing an extra click in your installer of choice.
There is an easy way. The GIMP is translatable using the gettext framework. Actually it is already translated into a large number of languages. This effort is coordinated by the GNOME Translation Project. The file README.i18n as found in the GIMP source tree gives you further information on how to contribute.
That's why we have put a lot of effort into making GIMP-2.0 work well on multi-screen setups. Not only does it respect monitor borders on Xinerama setups, it also works on X-servers configured to have multiple screens. GIMP-2.0 allows you to move docks and image windows between X11 screens and GIMP's session management remembers this setting. This allows you to prepare a very convenient multi-screen setup.
Well, it's documented in the README and has been around for some years. But of course you can't expect users to read this file and we know that.
What about contributing to the documentation or send some code that allows to configure keybindings from the preferences dialog. This would certainly be welcomed.
And is there still a layer number limitation?
Unlike PS which actually has (or used to have) a limitation on the number of layers, GIMP always allowed to use you as many layers as you liked. Of course there are limits (as always) but you will run out of memory before you hit them.
What you saw was the problem that the PSD import plug-in used to have a maximum number of layers that it could handle. This problem has been addressed. Please note that this only affected import of PS files. That's a lot better than what PS since it limits the number of GIMP layers you can import to zero.
GIMP is actually a lot superiour than PS when it comes to "straighten" an image. You should try the Corrective mode of the transform tools. It makes the tools work the other way around. If you need to rotate a scan, choose "Corrective" and align the grid with a line that's supposed to be horizontal. GIMP will do the appropriate rotation for you. This also works for perspective transformations which makes it the ideal tool for correcting perspective distortions.
BTW, there is Auto-Levels as well and the Crop functionality you are describing is considered to be done at some point.
GIMP ships with a file called ps-menurc. Place it into your ~/.gimp-1.3 folder and rename it to menurc and voila, you've got PS keybindings.
One reason is probably that some people find these things very useful. The other is that they come for free because of the object-oriented design of the GIMP core. Except from a few lines to create a menu entry for it, there wasn't any code written for this specific fonts palette. It's just a generic view on a container of GIMP things.
... selectors. Also, as I said earlier, there is another way to select the font. In the text tool there's a preview of the selected font. Click it and a font selection menu pops up to allow for quick access to all your fonts. Similar widgets exist to choose brushes, patterns, gradients, ... Actually of course this popup widget is again generic and works for all GIMP things.
I'd be happy to learn about what other way you would like to suggest since all you said so far is that "some other way" would be preferable. And you still didn't try the application. You can't really judge this from a screenshot. Please do also keep in mind that these screenshots do not necessarily represent a working environment. Instead they are arranged to show off as much of the user interface as possible. Usually you'd group the fonts selector in a dock with the brushes, palettes, patterns,
(1) factory preset shortcut keys
GIMP has these. It even comes with a menu file that makes it use PS key bindings.
(2) more shortcut keys like space bar
GIMP-1.3/2.0 does exactly this, press Space to temporarily switch to the Move tool.
(3) filters,(quick)masks,paths(PS7),curves/levels
Yes. yes, yes and yes. OK, you mentioned a few things here that GIMP doesn't have yet but most of them are available.
(8) Press Tab to hide/unhide the palettes/docks. This has been in 1.2 even.
(9) GIMP-1.3/2.0 has a nice (fully configurable) fullscreen mode.
You should perhaps try it first instead of judging from a screenshot. These palettes are configurable, you don't have to use them. If you need them, you open one and have GIMP remember this setting. You can even have multiple configurations, each configured for a specific task. Almost all things can be choosen from popup menus or optionally from palettes (or docks as GIMP calls them). So please, give it a try before you bitch about it.
The point is that you can do display color calibration using the GIMP's framework for color display modules (see http://developer.gimp.org/api/1.3/libgimpwidgets/G impColorDisplay.html). There is a soft-proof display filter implemented as such a module. Writing a monitor calibration module based on lcms (or some other color management library) is a piece of cake. I am pretty sure such a module will show up very soon and might even be included into 2.0.
Try http://developer.gimp.org/screenshots.html for screenshots of the development version.
They should consider to do so since librsvg renders their speed case (worldcup.svg) 2 times faster (3 seconds on a 1.2GHz PIII compared to the 6 seconds they claim for a 1.4GHz Athlon).
GIMP-1.2 doesn't have this option. Support for GIMP user interface themes (in addition to GTK+ themes) has been added in the 1.3 series. The theming support is still a bit rough but in general it allows you make GIMP look different (for example more compact) than other GTK+2 applications on your desktop.