I wanted to bump this bug report with the news that Cinepaint is now considered unmaintained in Debian / Ubuntu and is possibly (?) not going to be included in Hardy.
I will say beyond a shadow of a doubt that lacking _any_ application to do realtime manipulations in interfaces that are _close_ to Photoshop will hurt Ubuntu uptake. Every single DSLR camera on the market today offers the ability to shoot in RAW mode. While wonderful tools such as dcraw exist to push this into a usable open TIFF format, there will be no 'Photoshoplike' tools to manipulate the data. This is problematic. Blender can and will operate on these bit depths, but differ dramatically in the ease of slider based interfaces that most 'average' DSLR users would probably prefer. The GIMP developers have put 16 bits per channel and greater resolutions on the "unimportant" list for too long I fear, and we are now going to be faced with the very real smashing of reality (DSLR users almost exclusively use RAW manipulations in the deeper colour depth and they are becoming ubiquitous) that Free Software and Linux are falling _far_ behind mainstream dollar store applications. I urge anyone capable to attempt and seek resolution on this issue. It is _not_ a minor point as this also has huge implications in the feature film industry and its adoption of Linux. Having tools and infrastructure that operate on professional level bit-depths formats is vital to Free Software uptake, health, and simple practical 'every day' uses. -- Wide color channels in Gimp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16128 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
