The acme of civilised life is whining about people who whine about people whining about syntax, spelling and grammar on SlashDot. [pauses, goes back and counts the indirections Just In Case, clicks Submit]
"Graphics On Open Source Editor"? "Fart In Adobe's GEneral Direction"? Dissatisfied with PhotoShop(tm)? Get FIAGED!
On a more serious note, has anyone noticed Pathetic Writer's meteoric career? No? Well, it's quite a competent word processor... perhaps a name change isn't all that insane. It's not as if we don't have other handicaps to overcome.
I vote for GRAET (Graphics Rendering And Editing Tool). Gets the point across, pleases the Iriash and Welsh ('coz everyone will know how to pronounce it right straight away) and causes no end of spelling wars, all in one handy acronym. (-:
Silence is the sound of one patch languishing on your hard drive.
If we can have a KDE-integrated OpenOffice...
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...surely we can do the same with GIMP?
However, a patch to add a regex-aware tab-completing text box to the dialogs would be a good stand-in. (-:
I quite loke KDE's open dialog (the one with the list of shortcuts down the left side) but would like the ability to add shortcuts for a specific application only (e.g. web-editing programs would tend to want to go to a different set of popular locations than The GIMP).
Re:Seriously... Why would you use this?
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He said as he shook his head up and down in a very expressive affirmative manner that due to certain non-disclosure agreements he had signed he couldn't say what he knew.
And people continute to wonder why traditional, repressive development and distribution models are beginning to stall out. (-:
Yes, the interface is still cluttered, yes, some problems have not been fixed, but OTOH lots of others have been fixed including a lot of stuff people coming from PS were bitching about.
With GEGL now underlying it, 48-bit (or n-bit, e.g. 48- or 64-bit CMYK or RGBA) colour is closer to the GIMP than you think.
This reckons that planetisimals can form from dusty ice slush in "a few thousand years" and it's not alone. Having a look at the known turmoil in the rings - shepherd moons and so on - they have to have a fairly solid source of replenishment somewhere, or they'd be history in mere millennia.
There are many applications (pgaccess, Rekall, phpPgAdmin, dozens more, even OpenOffice!) which will grant you drag-n-drop style access to your database, whatever it is. This is the essence of what makes MS-Access attractive.
PostgreSQL, MySQL, ibFireBird are all good as back-ends. It's almost certain that the first two shipped with your Linux distribution.
It's an approximation, and there's some things which each set of software does markedly better than the other, but SDL+OpenGL is considerably easier to extend (e.g. the NET2 library mentioned above) so I'd expect to see it get better faster (cheaper:-).
The big advantages are:
you're not tied to one platform, one manufacturer or a handful of languages; and
You can find out exactly what each function and parameter does; and
You can easily modify or extend anything (and no DMCA worries); and
You don't have to give away any rights before you start using it.
These advantages are usually enough to handsomely compensate for any peripheral shortcomings (e.g. no force-feedback API, slightly smaller texturing envelope).
One PHB I worked for wrote a complaint about how bad OpenOffice was, and how bad Linux was. He calls the OS on his home machine (XP Home) "Word".
The punch-line? Said PHB wrote out the complaint using OpenOffice (1.1.2) on a Linux box (Mandrake 10.0 using KDE 3.2) without realising it. One of his receptionists used the same system for three days before she suddenly frowned at the screen and said, "Hey... this isn't Microsoft Word, is it?" Cue the quiet gristly sounds of Leon biting his tongue.
So... beware of people telling you OpenOffice has a steep learning curve. If your office is dumb enough to base its digital life around a big sheaf of Excel and/or Word macros, then yes, they will have major issues with that. They will have major issues with anything. Everyone else - the gazillions of people who wouldn't know what a macro was even if it leaped out of the screen and bit them on the nose - will get along just fine.
...in a sheaf of different choices. Think of those interfaces as being like unto MS-Access and add a real SQL backend to replace MS-SQL-Server.
As to setup: what's so hard about clicking on an installer, saying "Yes" or "Next" to everything, and choosing a password?
I use Mandrake Linux, so installing's even easier than that, I can either click on an icon in RPMdrake or issue a one-liner on the command-line and let URPMI worry about where to get the package and what else it might need to work. MySQL, PostgreSQL, ibFireBird and SQLite are all one-liners like that.
An even bigger advantage from my PoV (I do admin stuff) is that I don't get MS-Access beating the tar out of my fileshares in difficult-to-optimise ways.
Finally, I can pound on my databases in a variety of different ways from different languages, locally and remotely, and I neither have to have the database front end running to do this, nor stick to one insecure set of software on one platform.
Oh, yeah, almost forgot: OOo 2.0 comes pretty close to making your 'plaints completely redundant anyway.
oowriter does the linked frames and text-art, the only mainstream MS-Publisher thing it doesn't do is automatically add and link the frames for a new page.
MS-Publisher has a special place in printing companies' lives - on the dart-board, usually. Getting Publisher documents to look exactly the same on paper as they do on the customer's screen can be more than a bit dodgy.
As to reverse-engineering the file format, I think I should quote Pro Hart's cleaner: "Oh, meester 'Art! What a mess!"
For ordinary letters and even complex documents up to and including magazine articles, HTML is more than flexible enough to do what I want. OOo is a pretty reasonable HTML editor, and as well as it exporting stuff on demand, many programs will read and even edit or import HTML quite well. And web browsers are of course ubiquitous.
If you're writing a PhD thesis on maths or physics, or trying to lay out a business card (people even do this using spreadsheets, a printing shop I do business with has special epithets reserved for them) forget I ever set hand to keyboard, but for everyday stuff HTML is fine, almost overkill.
Are you sure about KDE?
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"It's working! Our plan for World Domination is working! Soon all of the computers will be ours!" (-:
Hello from sunny Perth, Western Australia, outside temperature somewhere near 40oC as I type (~105oF).
The acme of civilised life is whining about people who whine about people whining about syntax, spelling and grammar on SlashDot. [pauses, goes back and counts the indirections Just In Case, clicks Submit]
Six hours up and still not +5 Funny (or even +1).
...which while greatly endearing it to an irreverant few percent of the population would be death to it in professional circles. (-:
"Graphics On Open Source Editor"? "Fart In Adobe's GEneral Direction"? Dissatisfied with PhotoShop(tm)? Get FIAGED!
On a more serious note, has anyone noticed Pathetic Writer's meteoric career? No? Well, it's quite a competent word processor... perhaps a name change isn't all that insane. It's not as if we don't have other handicaps to overcome.
I vote for GRAET (Graphics Rendering And Editing Tool). Gets the point across, pleases the Iriash and Welsh ('coz everyone will know how to pronounce it right straight away) and causes no end of spelling wars, all in one handy acronym. (-:
Silence is the sound of one patch languishing on your hard drive.
...surely we can do the same with GIMP?
However, a patch to add a regex-aware tab-completing text box to the dialogs would be a good stand-in. (-:
I quite loke KDE's open dialog (the one with the list of shortcuts down the left side) but would like the ability to add shortcuts for a specific application only (e.g. web-editing programs would tend to want to go to a different set of popular locations than The GIMP).
...install one of the few hundred others immediately available from the competition. Or whip up your own, they've even given us a sample template to speed things along. We look forward to seeing "The Electric Hamster GIMP Splash 1.0" up on Freshmeat soon.
Yes, the interface is still cluttered, yes, some problems have not been fixed, but OTOH lots of others have been fixed including a lot of stuff people coming from PS were bitching about.
With GEGL now underlying it, 48-bit (or n-bit, e.g. 48- or 64-bit CMYK or RGBA) colour is closer to the GIMP than you think.
Have you paid for a licence to use that rhythm, sir?
This reckons that planetisimals can form from dusty ice slush in "a few thousand years" and it's not alone. Having a look at the known turmoil in the rings - shepherd moons and so on - they have to have a fairly solid source of replenishment somewhere, or they'd be history in mere millennia.
Start here, pick your resolution (up to 1800x1800 pixels on this one). Go and visit this about every week, too. You'll be glad you did. (-:
flour.
There are many applications (pgaccess, Rekall, phpPgAdmin, dozens more, even OpenOffice!) which will grant you drag-n-drop style access to your database, whatever it is. This is the essence of what makes MS-Access attractive.
PostgreSQL, MySQL, ibFireBird are all good as back-ends. It's almost certain that the first two shipped with your Linux distribution.
It means: stop doing this, do something else instead. It's related to pain.
Had WINE installed, and Evolution set to hand off to it, and found himself running a 'doze zombie controller. Yeurgh! Flee the taint! (-:
It's an approximation, and there's some things which each set of software does markedly better than the other, but SDL+OpenGL is considerably easier to extend (e.g. the NET2 library mentioned above) so I'd expect to see it get better faster (cheaper
The big advantages are:
These advantages are usually enough to handsomely compensate for any peripheral shortcomings (e.g. no force-feedback API, slightly smaller texturing envelope).
One PHB I worked for wrote a complaint about how bad OpenOffice was, and how bad Linux was. He calls the OS on his home machine (XP Home) "Word".
The punch-line? Said PHB wrote out the complaint using OpenOffice (1.1.2) on a Linux box (Mandrake 10.0 using KDE 3.2) without realising it. One of his receptionists used the same system for three days before she suddenly frowned at the screen and said, "Hey... this isn't Microsoft Word, is it?" Cue the quiet gristly sounds of Leon biting his tongue.
So... beware of people telling you OpenOffice has a steep learning curve. If your office is dumb enough to base its digital life around a big sheaf of Excel and/or Word macros, then yes, they will have major issues with that. They will have major issues with anything. Everyone else - the gazillions of people who wouldn't know what a macro was even if it leaped out of the screen and bit them on the nose - will get along just fine.
...in a sheaf of different choices. Think of those interfaces as being like unto MS-Access and add a real SQL backend to replace MS-SQL-Server.
As to setup: what's so hard about clicking on an installer, saying "Yes" or "Next" to everything, and choosing a password?
I use Mandrake Linux, so installing's even easier than that, I can either click on an icon in RPMdrake or issue a one-liner on the command-line and let URPMI worry about where to get the package and what else it might need to work. MySQL, PostgreSQL, ibFireBird and SQLite are all one-liners like that.
An even bigger advantage from my PoV (I do admin stuff) is that I don't get MS-Access beating the tar out of my fileshares in difficult-to-optimise ways.
Finally, I can pound on my databases in a variety of different ways from different languages, locally and remotely, and I neither have to have the database front end running to do this, nor stick to one insecure set of software on one platform.
Oh, yeah, almost forgot: OOo 2.0 comes pretty close to making your 'plaints completely redundant anyway.
oowriter does the linked frames and text-art, the only mainstream MS-Publisher thing it doesn't do is automatically add and link the frames for a new page.
MS-Publisher has a special place in printing companies' lives - on the dart-board, usually. Getting Publisher documents to look exactly the same on paper as they do on the customer's screen can be more than a bit dodgy.
As to reverse-engineering the file format, I think I should quote Pro Hart's cleaner: "Oh, meester 'Art! What a mess!"
For ordinary letters and even complex documents up to and including magazine articles, HTML is more than flexible enough to do what I want. OOo is a pretty reasonable HTML editor, and as well as it exporting stuff on demand, many programs will read and even edit or import HTML quite well. And web browsers are of course ubiquitous.
If you're writing a PhD thesis on maths or physics, or trying to lay out a business card (people even do this using spreadsheets, a printing shop I do business with has special epithets reserved for them) forget I ever set hand to keyboard, but for everyday stuff HTML is fine, almost overkill.
Look again.