On 12/5/06, Alexander Rabtchevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Schumacher wrote: > > Some of the disadvantages of current GIMP versions are going to be > > addressed in 2.4, but the discussion clearly demonstrates that the plans > > for it (or even the current state of the 2.3 releases) is not known to the > > general public. > > What about giving more publicity to Windows development builds? I guess > the Linux guys have enough qualification to obtain news or compile and > give them a try by themselves :), but the majority of potential users > use Windows. And as professionals also use Windows or Macs their > feedback could be welcome. > > > > > Personally, the most interesting fact for me in this discussion is that > > finally the "GIMP is not a clone of Photoshop" is getting across - the GIMP > > developers did never claim this themselves, people just want (or demand :) > > it to be. > > The time goes by, nothing stays unchanged. A voting can be issued via > Internet, but I'm almost sure most of the users use GIMP and similar > software for photo retouching now. As the digital imaging comes in > people's houses, processing of photos becomes a demand. The number of > users who need some kind of painting software for content creation from > scratch (as Gimp was claimed to be used as designed) increases slowly, > but the number of people who needs all-in-one tool for both photo > processing and content creation grows.
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