On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, at 8:07pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I kinda like Gimp's GUI the way it is and would not want to see it changed > just to win over a handful of Photoshop lovers.
A "handful" of Photoshop users? Heh. When it comes to graphics on desktop computers, there's Photoshop, and then there's everything else. It's the Microsoft Office of desktop graphics. > Of course, someone *could*, if they wanted to burn the energy, create a > Photoshop-looking front-end for Gimp. But I don't see the cost/benefit > advantage here. Hmmmm. Cost/benefit analysis. Return on investment. With a commercial product, you estimate cost, you estimate resulting sales, and subtract the latter from the former. If the result is positive, you do it. It's much harder to quantify things when it comes to a community project like GIMP. Most or all of the labor is unpaid volunteerism; most of the development cost is picked up by individuals. There are no sales figures. Many of the developers are also the users. I'm pretty sure we're either gonna get a "Divide by zero" or "Stack overflow" error trying to evaluate that equation. But if your goal is to get as many people as possible to use GIMP, then introducing UI elements designed to aide Photoshop users in a transition would be very valuable indeed. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
