Whatever font I try to use (incl. M$ fonts) I cannot get them kerned properly (tried OOo, KWord, AbiWord) in KDE. Where is the problem? Does such paits as To or VA show kerned in such apps for you?
I have paid for a cable broadband in central Europe (Czech republic). Initially, a year or two ago, it was 256kb/s, but they are making it faster and faster every few months - now it is 4Mb/s. I will probably change the service for a cheaper one, because I have no use for such a fast link.
now only if they could bring back my Jane. too bad that it cannot bring what is really important - the mind. cat's or girl's, a body is nothing. hardware matters only if you have the software to run on it
No I am not. I lack some functions in the Gimp. But the interface is one of the best GUI I know. The other one is Blender's interface. And many people are bitching about it too. People want an average GUI. But those who love Blender and Gimp are very happy with the interfaces and dont want it to be broken to average.
independence of Gimp windows is what I LOVE. Don't use that broken window manager that you are apparently using. The Gimp is made to be used with a decent window manager. There are dozens of them. Just choose.
Your post is a flamebait, but I will reply anyway. Where I get the number from? My PERSONAL experience. I have burnt thousands of hours working with Photoshop and the Gimp. And my experience is such that what I can accopmlish in the Gimp in two hours, I can make in Photoshop 10 or 12 hours. Mainly because of such wonderful features like dynamic shortcuts, superpowerful scripting and independent windows, which is really a booster if you are using a good window manager. However I didn't published it as a study in a peer reviewed jurnal because it is only my personal experience - your milleage may vary - try to read my firts pot on this topic. However if you want to grant me some finacial support for such a study I may write it:)
No. Gimp interface fits me very well (and many other people too). It is very elegant and intuitive for me. Dynamic shortcuts - oh its heaven! And independent, docable windows too. It is 500% more efficient than Photoshop for me (and I have been using Photoshop for many years 8 hours a day profesionally).
But it may be true that it does not fit a newbie. I do not mind it. I am not a newbie in computer graphics. I am a very advanced poweruser, an ocassional professional. I want Gimp to have more professional features - deeppaint, CMYK, HSV,... but I do not want the interface to be downgraded towards noobs in such a way it hurts advanced users. So what I really thin that there should be more than a one big crossplatform floss raster editor. A professional one, the Gimp, and some for newbies who want just to remove red eyes. It would be very nice competition - because it would attract those incompetent newbies and keep good applications safe from beeing broken to make them acceptable for noobs. The program described in this article is not that solution - it is not a crossplatform program. But I really hope that there will be such a program soon, may be Krita?
what is wrong with the gimp interface? I really like it. The only thing I hate is it does not have CMYK - in those very rare cases I need it (prepress work), I have to use Photoshop, which has really bad interface.
Moral: its onlu matter of the point of view. There is no interface that fits everybody.
The GIMP allows you to make your own splash screen and have that as startup splash instead of the one that comes with the archive. To do this you can simply follow the guidelines below.
* Make the splash 300x200 or more. (Smaller splashs will make text being cut off)
* Then save the splash in $PREFIX/gimp/2.0/images/gimp_splash.png
* Starting with GIMP 2.2, the splash image is called gimp-splash.png and will also be searched in your personal GIMP directory (~/.gimp-2.2/).
Restart GIMP and your splash screen should be the one being used by GIMP instead of the one from the archive.
--joking. i agree that the 8bit only issue is the worst problem of the Gimp. It has better GUI than Photoshop (I have an experience with both of them), it is very good indeed, but 8bits makes me sometimes launch Cinepaint, which I do not like. However, it will be better soon, I hope!
We do not want Tureky in EU! Just because things like in this article - they do not honor human rights! And I hope, that even in the worst scenarion, when all the EU would say YES, Greeks, a traditional enemy of Turks, would say NO!
I do not mind 99% of Turkey is not in Europe (Cyprus is not in Europe at all). I do not mind they are muslims, I am not a christian and I see no big difference between christianity and islam. I do not mind their poor economy, my cvountry's economy is not much better. But I really cannot stand things like those described in the article.
no:) czechs are not germanic people. we share long histroy with austria - and culture, like cuisine which is very very similar, and more. but czechs are slavic by language and by genetic analysis we share most with celtic nations. of course, we are just mongrels like any european nation. but language is slavic and genes are mostly celtic and slavic, only few germanic.
we was not a part of USSR:)) yes we have been for 40 years (which is historically pretty insignificant amount of time compared to centuries being part of the west Europe) under influence of USSR, but large part of Germany was in the exactly the same situation. Culturally we are west europe. There is no much difference between Czech and Austria for example. There is very very large difference between Czech and Bulgaria, Ukraine and other eastern European country.
Yes it is a Czech distro, a clone of Knoppix although they are planning to make a full desktop distro not based on Knoppix. It stands for Daniel's LinuX - the main authors name. ppicz is in pronounciation simillar to a word which means "cunt" in Czechm so it wouldnt be a nice name I think:)
LOL:))
You made me laugh. Danix stand for DANIels's linuX i believe, which is name of the main developer. Similar case as with Knoppix itself.
BTW: I do not live in the eastern Europe. I live in central Europe. You woudlnt say that Austria or Germany is in eastern Europe, would you?
Knoppix is really powerful tool. I use it often (or its Czech clone called Danix) but recently it saved me really. After my computer broke down not being able to boot from HD i use Knoppix for my everyday work. If it was not here, I would be in deep trouble, because I cannot afford a new computer now. Thanx for Knoppix!!
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So they have finally found the Random Number God
is it pseudorandom generator? or based on radioactive decay? or noise in a transistor? i cannot find that info anywhere
it is just matter of time. i already feel to be a european (read my nation is wurope, not any part of it)
Whatever font I try to use (incl. M$ fonts) I cannot get them kerned properly (tried OOo, KWord, AbiWord) in KDE. Where is the problem? Does such paits as To or VA show kerned in such apps for you?
I have paid for a cable broadband in central Europe (Czech republic). Initially, a year or two ago, it was 256kb/s, but they are making it faster and faster every few months - now it is 4Mb/s. I will probably change the service for a cheaper one, because I have no use for such a fast link.
now only if they could bring back my Jane. too bad that it cannot bring what is really important - the mind. cat's or girl's, a body is nothing. hardware matters only if you have the software to run on it
I didnt read it all because i do not like to read lenghty rants, but i have to say that I LOVE the searchbar.
MS Windows (TM) are broken then. Repair what is broken, not what is good. Or better, do not use it.
No I am not. I lack some functions in the Gimp. But the interface is one of the best GUI I know. The other one is Blender's interface. And many people are bitching about it too. People want an average GUI. But those who love Blender and Gimp are very happy with the interfaces and dont want it to be broken to average.
independence of Gimp windows is what I LOVE. Don't use that broken window manager that you are apparently using. The Gimp is made to be used with a decent window manager. There are dozens of them. Just choose.
Your post is a flamebait, but I will reply anyway. Where I get the number from? My PERSONAL experience. I have burnt thousands of hours working with Photoshop and the Gimp. And my experience is such that what I can accopmlish in the Gimp in two hours, I can make in Photoshop 10 or 12 hours. Mainly because of such wonderful features like dynamic shortcuts, superpowerful scripting and independent windows, which is really a booster if you are using a good window manager. :)
However I didn't published it as a study in a peer reviewed jurnal because it is only my personal experience - your milleage may vary - try to read my firts pot on this topic.
However if you want to grant me some finacial support for such a study I may write it
No. Gimp interface fits me very well (and many other people too). It is very elegant and intuitive for me. Dynamic shortcuts - oh its heaven! And independent, docable windows too. It is 500% more efficient than Photoshop for me (and I have been using Photoshop for many years 8 hours a day profesionally).
... but I do not want the interface to be downgraded towards noobs in such a way it hurts advanced users. So what I really thin that there should be more than a one big crossplatform floss raster editor. A professional one, the Gimp, and some for newbies who want just to remove red eyes. It would be very nice competition - because it would attract those incompetent newbies and keep good applications safe from beeing broken to make them acceptable for noobs. The program described in this article is not that solution - it is not a crossplatform program. But I really hope that there will be such a program soon, may be Krita?
But it may be true that it does not fit a newbie. I do not mind it. I am not a newbie in computer graphics. I am a very advanced poweruser, an ocassional professional. I want Gimp to have more professional features - deeppaint, CMYK, HSV,
what is wrong with the gimp interface? I really like it. The only thing I hate is it does not have CMYK - in those very rare cases I need it (prepress work), I have to use Photoshop, which has really bad interface. Moral: its onlu matter of the point of view. There is no interface that fits everybody.
better GUI than windows photoshop, to be specific. photoshop for windows has f***ing MDI interface, which is not suitable for serious work
The GIMP allows you to make your own splash screen and have that as startup splash instead of the one that comes with the archive. To do this you can simply follow the guidelines below.
* Make the splash 300x200 or more. (Smaller splashs will make text being cut off)
* Then save the splash in $PREFIX/gimp/2.0/images/gimp_splash.png
* Starting with GIMP 2.2, the splash image is called gimp-splash.png and will also be searched in your personal GIMP directory (~/.gimp-2.2/).
Restart GIMP and your splash screen should be the one being used by GIMP instead of the one from the archive.
8 bits ought to be enough for anyone!
--joking. i agree that the 8bit only issue is the worst problem of the Gimp. It has better GUI than Photoshop (I have an experience with both of them), it is very good indeed, but 8bits makes me sometimes launch Cinepaint, which I do not like. However, it will be better soon, I hope!
We do not want Tureky in EU! Just because things like in this article - they do not honor human rights! And I hope, that even in the worst scenarion, when all the EU would say YES, Greeks, a traditional enemy of Turks, would say NO!
I do not mind 99% of Turkey is not in Europe (Cyprus is not in Europe at all). I do not mind they are muslims, I am not a christian and I see no big difference between christianity and islam. I do not mind their poor economy, my cvountry's economy is not much better. But I really cannot stand things like those described in the article.
Wacom adds to their tablets mouses, wireless, which use no batteries and has do be used on the tablet.
no :) czechs are not germanic people. we share long histroy with austria - and culture, like cuisine which is very very similar, and more. but czechs are slavic by language and by genetic analysis we share most with celtic nations. of course, we are just mongrels like any european nation. but language is slavic and genes are mostly celtic and slavic, only few germanic.
by the way, why you thought that a Danish project would use an expensive Czech domain? I wouldnt see the point for a non-Czech project to use dot-cz.
we was not a part of USSR :)) yes we have been for 40 years (which is historically pretty insignificant amount of time compared to centuries being part of the west Europe) under influence of USSR, but large part of Germany was in the exactly the same situation. Culturally we are west europe. There is no much difference between Czech and Austria for example. There is very very large difference between Czech and Bulgaria, Ukraine and other eastern European country.
Yes I know it. If I didnt learn it in an elementary school I would have a very hard time to pass all exams and complete the school.
Yes it is a Czech distro, a clone of Knoppix although they are planning to make a full desktop distro not based on Knoppix. It stands for Daniel's LinuX - the main authors name. ppicz is in pronounciation simillar to a word which means "cunt" in Czechm so it wouldnt be a nice name I think :)
LOL :))
You made me laugh. Danix stand for DANIels's linuX i believe, which is name of the main developer. Similar case as with Knoppix itself.
BTW: I do not live in the eastern Europe. I live in central Europe. You woudlnt say that Austria or Germany is in eastern Europe, would you?
Knoppix is really powerful tool. I use it often (or its Czech clone called Danix) but recently it saved me really. After my computer broke down not being able to boot from HD i use Knoppix for my everyday work. If it was not here, I would be in deep trouble, because I cannot afford a new computer now. Thanx for Knoppix!!