On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:32:08AM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > > yes, currently there are two. one is the relatively old Cinepaint, > > which was a fork of gimp (www.cinepaint.org). right now it uses > > gtk+-1.x but they are in the process of shifting to fltk. > > > > the other one is the relatively new Krita (www.koffice.org/krita) > > which is a part of the Koffice package. i have the version (i don't > > really remember the version now and right now i am away from my home > > pc) which came with slackware 11, had a look at it, it tries to mimic > > PS in its user interface but haven't 'really' used it... > > > > both also have nominal pretty decent support for cmyk, another > > 'feature' absent in gimp :) > > > > regards, subash > > > I also cannot believe the ineptitude of the gimp developers WRT > 16-bit images. It's a complete nonstarter for high-quality image > manipulation for that reason alone.
It's endemic in a lot of the open source software, unfortunately; it's developed by (and mostly for) a limited market, often with a strong ego-driven component. This leads to several undesirable symptoms. One, as you have noticed, is a tendency to overlook (if not downright ignore) certain sections of the (potential) user community; "If I don't need this, then I don't see why anybody else should, either". Another is the culture of contempt for Microsoft; some otherwise useful pieces of software (MySQL is one that comes to mind) go out of their way to make themselves less attractive to users of Microsoft software (and, to a lesser extent, adherents to other standards that the primary author of the software in question doesn't care for). Both of these problems show up in dcraw, to name an example more familiar to many of us. And, of course, there's the general user-unfriendliness of other useful pieces of software such as Vuescan. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
