On Monday 09 July 2007, David Southwell wrote: > A gui that emulates photoshop is really needed.
If it were done as a "wrapper" idea over standard GIMP, and integrated, I could easily agree with that. Much better again if it were modular, so you could enable and disable PS-ish chunks. The current gung-ho we-know-better approach is hardly conducive to co-operation, and I suspect that the result will be a "poor man's clone" of PS, one which continually lags behind both PS and GIMP. Abandoning core GIMP work to support it will hurt GS first up because it will stop providing better platforms from which to build the clones, & second up by making PS more of a false "standard" to which GS must constantly be in pursuit. With this in mind, the ideal thing to do is to start (without, of course, asking the GS developers) a "GimpShop Clone" which is a more modular menuing system for GIMP, expressed as a PS-like overlay. Call it PhotoGIMP and listen to the whinging! (-: Things like a PS plugin-plugin would be a worthy but I think separate project. Amongst other things, you could probably convince such a beastie to run essentially headless. Call it PhotoFactory and see what other whinges arise? It would be in the spirit of the thing to do overlays for TuxPaint, GPhoto, MS-Paint or whatever as well. Anyway, that's my 2c worth. End of conversation, I suspect. Cheers; Leon -- http://cyberknights.com.au/ Modern tools; traditional dedication http://plug.linux.org.au/ Member, Perth Linux User Group http://slpwa.asn.au/ Member, Linux Professionals WA http://osia.net.au/ Member, Open Source Industry Australia http://linux.org.au/ Committee Member, Linux Australia _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
