On 2015-01-29 01:40, Bruno Benitez wrote:
I think that the basic use of an image editor for a standard user are
the ones signaled on the tables on the comparison page [1], Croping,
Adding text, Rezise, Rotate, Navigate Folders. The only thing a good
image viewer still lacks on linux is adding text, thats the only thing
from the list that only Gimp could bring. My case is to get rid of
both Gimp and Ristretto and leave an image viewer with basic editing
capabilities like gThumb[2] or Shotwell[3]. As stated by many before
anyone who would need more can get any of the available image editors
in the repositories. If what we are looking is to give a tool so
anyone can rapidly start drawing on a xubuntu install, there are
simplier yet powerful tools like MyPaint[4] and Krita[5] that could
also be considered.
The list of standard features that are mentioned on the wiki are still
valid.
After moving Ristretto in and out (and lastly, in) and messing around
with gThumb, I'm pretty sure we've "figured out" our image viewer needs;
we should keep Ristretto for now and focus on the image editors. If we
change the image editor, maybe the image viewer issue can be brought up
again after that.
I've used MyPaint myself, but I don't really consider it a fair
replacement for GIMP. You can create fancy looking stuff with it, but
it's clearly geared towards digital painting, not image editing.
Krita is KDE/Qt, so that makes it pretty much out of question.
[1]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Oneiric/DefaultImageEditor
[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gthumb
[3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/shotwell
[4] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/mypaint
[5] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/krita
2015-01-28 20:23 GMT-03:00 David Bermúdez Guiot
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
OK, first of all, sorry for the shortness of my contribution.
Allow me to explain a bit.
We are thinking about standard on the go users who run Xubuntu
Live, I think GiMP is a great tool for editing and creating photo
projects. But games, lets be truly sinceres, we dont run it live
to play, am I right? So thats why Im thinking we use GiMP and
LibreOffice, someone pointed that Abiword is quite buggy and it is
indeed. GNUmeric is a good tool but comparing vs LO Calc, it
loses. Sorry for the english, not my native language. Have a great
day.
2015-01-28 16:54 GMT-06:00 Eero Tamminen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Hi,
On torstai 29 tammikuu 2015, David Bermúdez Guiot wrote:
> Gimp should still be shipped, however I don't think games
should be
> installed.
Why? What's your reasoning?
Btw. Is it possible to have Software Center front page seeded
with things
that people may want to install first (things like LO, Gimp,
etc)?
- Eero
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> Since we are discussing about other choices in the default
seed already,
> it feels like the perfect time to bring yet another
discussion to the
> table:
>
> Do we want to keep shipping GIMP?
>
> For some background, the team has discussed the issue [1]
and gone
> through various simpler alternatives [2] for GIMP a few
times* in the
> past, but no suitable candidate was found.
>
> Do we think there is a suitable, light and easy-to-use
alternative for
> GIMP now? Should we simply drop GIMP altogether and not
replace it?
>
> Discuss.
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi
>
> [1]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2011-July/007864.html
> [2]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Oneiric/
> DefaultImageEditor
> * Most of this isn't archived in an easy-to-access way
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