I agree with that. It's decent now, it's a bit different from PS, but it's still quite nice. Although, it still has some rough points UI-wise. Like that stupid huge right-click-menu that still haunts you in the image menu (and for some reason in the corner of the image window too), there's not much point in having it everywhere, instead of a proper context menu (as almost every other window in Gimp now has assigned to it). It doesn't make you work quicker or easier, quite contrary, things take longer to access from it...
The dockable windows are marvelous, and it makes Gimp quite usable, even though you always do have to commit a whole workspace to it because they're all a bit large still.
But yes, I agree completely with the point you raised, that it's a decent UI now, just not identical to PS (and why should it be). I have quite a PS background myself, and can say that it's really not a big issue to find things in Gimp after using PS, especially when the documentation is alright. Not perfect, but improved quite a lot too. Layer styles and adjustment layers would rock, though.:)
Having used Gimp2 and its prereleases for some time now, I can assure you that the lack of context-menus and just instead that dumb-fuck non-context-huge-ass menu is not the only way of doing things anymore. It is still available when clicking in the actual image window (which I personally think is useless now when that same menu is visible at all times anyways, since a context menu with layer-specific items would be useful in the image window), but it's come far from the 1.x awkwardiness:)
Matias
Having used Scribus for the fairly basic dp use I have had, I can assure you that the PDF export in Scribus works well and is rather sufficient for making print-ready files for printshops.
Ahemm... Ever heard of urpmi? I myself have not a long background with Mandrake, but for the latest month that I've been using Mandrake 10, I've found urpmi to be rather satisfactory (although the gui to it isn't quite on the level synaptic is for apt). It handles dependencies, repositories are easy to setup and it does its thing. Although the mysterious meddling they've been doing with the mirrors quite infuriated me (and a lot of other Mandrake users).
So, try doing "urpmi --auto-select" and you'll find updating the whole system rather easy...
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I agree with that. It's decent now, it's a bit different from PS, but it's still quite nice. Although, it still has some rough points UI-wise. Like that stupid huge right-click-menu that still haunts you in the image menu (and for some reason in the corner of the image window too), there's not much point in having it everywhere, instead of a proper context menu (as almost every other window in Gimp now has assigned to it). It doesn't make you work quicker or easier, quite contrary, things take longer to access from it...
The dockable windows are marvelous, and it makes Gimp quite usable, even though you always do have to commit a whole workspace to it because they're all a bit large still.
But yes, I agree completely with the point you raised, that it's a decent UI now, just not identical to PS (and why should it be). I have quite a PS background myself, and can say that it's really not a big issue to find things in Gimp after using PS, especially when the documentation is alright. Not perfect, but improved quite a lot too. Layer styles and adjustment layers would rock, though. :)
Having used Gimp2 and its prereleases for some time now, I can assure you that the lack of context-menus and just instead that dumb-fuck non-context-huge-ass menu is not the only way of doing things anymore. It is still available when clicking in the actual image window (which I personally think is useless now when that same menu is visible at all times anyways, since a context menu with layer-specific items would be useful in the image window), but it's come far from the 1.x awkwardiness :)
Matias
Having used Scribus for the fairly basic dp use I have had, I can assure you that the PDF export in Scribus works well and is rather sufficient for making print-ready files for printshops.
Ahemm... Ever heard of urpmi? I myself have not a long background with Mandrake, but for the latest month that I've been using Mandrake 10, I've found urpmi to be rather satisfactory (although the gui to it isn't quite on the level synaptic is for apt). It handles dependencies, repositories are easy to setup and it does its thing. Although the mysterious meddling they've been doing with the mirrors quite infuriated me (and a lot of other Mandrake users). So, try doing "urpmi --auto-select" and you'll find updating the whole system rather easy...