Re: GUIs: Motif or ...? (was Re: tlug: Fw: Could Linux Kill NT?)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:
> 
> >Interesting statement. When did you last try the GIMP, and what are
> >you comparing it to? I have access to Photoshop 4.0 on a PowerMac at
> 
> About a week ago.  It's better than it was, but still not good.  I don't
> think it has anything on Photoshop, and Paintshop Pro pretty much wipes
> the floor with it.   Besides supporting Windows users and needing a live
> model handy, needing a decent graphics tool is one of the other things
> that keeps me using Windows a lot.  And who's the genius who thought up
> the idea that GIMP should have it's tool bar in a completely different
> window than the image being manipulated?  Somehow, I find the name GIMP

Paint shop pro does this, too.  It just creates a huge background window
which really isn't used for anything except to provide the illusion that
the toolbar is in the same window as the image.. :)

> to be rather appropriate.  But it is making progress.  I used to
> completely hate GIMP and thought it was worthless (it was).  Now it's
> improved to the point where I just don't like it and think it has a lot
> of catching up to do.  But it probably won't catch up, 'cuz I think FSF
> designs software from the standpoint of trying to make it perversely
> different than any commercial software :-)

As far as a decent graphics tool - I do ALL my graphics work, both for
TurboLinux and for my game that I'm making, using XPaint and the Gimp.
Now, granted I'm not a computer graphics specialist, but I find the tools
very useful.  I used to use Paint Shop Pro (the 16-bit version works great
under WINE, by the way), but not anymore.

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jonathan Byrne
> Media and Content Section
> 3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>
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