As a perpetual distro switcher, I've tried my hand at both gnome and kde. IMO, the KDE folks, in terms of visual style and interface, seem to be much more of a windows knockoff, and, on the other hand, the GNOME folks seem to actually be interested in usability and human interface guidelines.
I think having multiple GUI environments is an asset to linux, but as for me and my house, I'll take GNOME for it's beauty and interface. K3b is the only KDE app that GNOME seems to lack a real counterpart to.
now back to your regularly scheduled flames and trolling.
Its very politically incorrect to say but I'm going to say it anyway. People of color tend to be poor and poor people commit more crimes. Should we change our laws because certain groups of people cannot control themselves and be responsible for their actions?
Actually, yes. Victimless crimes only serve to fill prisons. In the words of Chuang Tzu,
"The more laws there are, the more criminals there are."
Rich/poor has very little to do with it. Except that the rich don't tend to go to jail. In the words of Bill Murray in Kingpin when he wins the milllion dollars, "Finally, I'm above the law."
Or like the 5(or more?) DUIs combined between Dubya & Cheney... but I digress.
I work for a 100k+ daily circulation newspaper doing ad design with InDesign 2 as a front end for our proprietary database workflow system (made half-assedly by DTI but that's another story).
An earlier post knocked ID for being a cross between Illustrator and Quark, but that's a large part of what makes InDesign great -- the familiar Adobe-style UI, useful vector abilities from Illustrator, and it's not Quark!
I'm constantly exporting files to PDF for customer proofing and haven't experienced any trouble with it's PDF creation, or it's ability to import a PDF image, and I'm using 2.0 not CS.
I've not had the chance or need yet to use Scribus and Gimp in a production environment, but my toying with both have been positive. Gimp 2.0 seems, to a daily photoshop user, to be quite powerful and feature-rich, if not quite Photoshop.
Scribus is still, from a new-to-it perspective, playing catch-up in terms of instant usability, but I love the inroads that linux and open-source in general are making towards having a competent toolset for professional designers. Not that I want to sit in front of the computer and do design at home after working all day, but hey, you never know...
Saying that Scribus should work on Publisher support is nuts. We don't even allow Publisher files as graphics-standards submissions.
In my experience, if it comes in designed in Publisher, it's gonna be the print equivalent of a GeoCities teenager's website: an eyesore.
Scribus and GIMP should keep their eyes on the workflow and output needs of professional designers, and we'll see more/. stories about firms moving to OSS solutions.
Speaking of which, does the GIMP have much functionality along the lines of creating web graphics slices along the lines Macromedia's Fireworks? That would seem a wise avenue to go down...
Just took the plunge and installed SP2 on my lin/win dual boot box last night and everything appears to be working just fine, and does seem to be "snappier" as some suggest.
Fixed my WMP9/DivX video playback lock-up, too.
I've got my family off the IE and Outlook teat, and onto Firefox/Thunderbird, but still can't quite get the Mrs. to give Linux a fair shot (when it's up and running on the box, she has figured out how to logout and reboot back into XP, though!) -- so as for me and my house, SP2 does seem to be an improvement speed and functionality wise over SP1. Even played nice right off the bat with ZoneAlarm suite.
And if it can get more people to run a firewall, then, really, even for slashdot, how is this a bad thing?
Slashdot Mirror
I, for one, welcome our new smarter overlords.
As a perpetual distro switcher, I've tried my hand at both gnome and kde. IMO, the KDE folks, in terms of visual style and interface, seem to be much more of a windows knockoff, and, on the other hand, the GNOME folks seem to actually be interested in usability and human interface guidelines.
I think having multiple GUI environments is an asset to linux, but as for me and my house, I'll take GNOME for it's beauty and interface. K3b is the only KDE app that GNOME seems to lack a real counterpart to.
now back to your regularly scheduled flames and trolling.
Its very politically incorrect to say but I'm going to say it anyway. People of color tend to be poor and poor people commit more crimes. Should we change our laws because certain groups of people cannot control themselves and be responsible for their actions?
Actually, yes. Victimless crimes only serve to fill prisons. In the words of Chuang Tzu,
"The more laws there are, the more criminals there are."
Rich/poor has very little to do with it. Except that the rich don't tend to go to jail. In the words of Bill Murray in Kingpin when he wins the milllion dollars, "Finally, I'm above the law."
Or like the 5(or more?) DUIs combined between Dubya & Cheney... but I digress.
My precious antique eye!
makes me think of riding around in the AM radio days and going silent when going under an overpass.
I learned in High School,
It's a wonder I can think at all
though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
-- Paul Simon, Kodachrome, 1973
I work for a 100k+ daily circulation newspaper doing ad design with InDesign 2 as a front end for our proprietary database workflow system (made half-assedly by DTI but that's another story).
An earlier post knocked ID for being a cross between Illustrator and Quark, but that's a large part of what makes InDesign great -- the familiar Adobe-style UI, useful vector abilities from Illustrator, and it's not Quark!
I'm constantly exporting files to PDF for customer proofing and haven't experienced any trouble with it's PDF creation, or it's ability to import a PDF image, and I'm using 2.0 not CS.
I've not had the chance or need yet to use Scribus and Gimp in a production environment, but my toying with both have been positive. Gimp 2.0 seems, to a daily photoshop user, to be quite powerful and feature-rich, if not quite Photoshop. Scribus is still, from a new-to-it perspective, playing catch-up in terms of instant usability, but I love the inroads that linux and open-source in general are making towards having a competent toolset for professional designers. Not that I want to sit in front of the computer and do design at home after working all day, but hey, you never know...
Saying that Scribus should work on Publisher support is nuts. We don't even allow Publisher files as graphics-standards submissions. In my experience, if it comes in designed in Publisher, it's gonna be the print equivalent of a GeoCities teenager's website: an eyesore.
Scribus and GIMP should keep their eyes on the workflow and output needs of professional designers, and we'll see more /. stories about firms moving to OSS solutions.
Speaking of which, does the GIMP have much functionality along the lines of creating web graphics slices along the lines Macromedia's Fireworks? That would seem a wise avenue to go down...
I, for one, welcome our new lubricated polyester overlords.
Did anyone get a hold of the big file and could mirror it?
Just took the plunge and installed SP2 on my lin/win dual boot box last night and everything appears to be working just fine, and does seem to be "snappier" as some suggest. Fixed my WMP9/DivX video playback lock-up, too. I've got my family off the IE and Outlook teat, and onto Firefox/Thunderbird, but still can't quite get the Mrs. to give Linux a fair shot (when it's up and running on the box, she has figured out how to logout and reboot back into XP, though!) -- so as for me and my house, SP2 does seem to be an improvement speed and functionality wise over SP1. Even played nice right off the bat with ZoneAlarm suite. And if it can get more people to run a firewall, then, really, even for slashdot, how is this a bad thing?