On 6 Sep 2002, at 18:28, Bryan Tyson wrote: > KMail and Gimp!
I've tried both, Gimp more briefly than KMail. My verdicts: KMail: Very good, faster than Pegasus on downloading mail. I'm not wild about the display -- I like Pegasus's windowing better than the frame-like interface of KMail. Pegasus offers a dialogue box when I reply that lets me easily pick which address or addresses the response goes to (from, reply to, cc, sender and from). I use that often. I can probably get used to KMail, but would miss that feature in Pegasus, and possibly some others I've grown used to. Gimp is a very powerful tool for editing images. But PaintShop Pro offers a better image handling capability where you can browse a directory, which produces a set of thumbnails that can then be sorted, copied, moved, deleted easily. It offers a number of easy to use tools for changing brightness and contrast, resizing, cropping, sharpening and blurring, solarization, posterizing, increasing or decreasing color depth, etc. I mainly use the "browse" feature for sorting and moving images. It also saves to a huge number of formats, offers a text tool, etc., along with the usual brushes and air brush tools, etc. As I say, I haven't used Gimp much yet, but unless it offers a browse that gives me a catalogue of thumbnails in a directory for me to choose from, sort, move, delete, etc., it won't be of much use to me. Dennis Fowler
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