On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 13:19 +0000, Ten wrote:
When the GIMP catches up with the features that ps has now, which it will one day, it will be an amazing piece of software to have open source, and right now for people who just want what I'd call "light photoshopping" - the layered editing and the filters and none of the colour management etc, be they end users or professionals who're just Saving For Web* it does the job for a slightly better price :)
Don't forget decent support for pro grade Drawing tablets. Using a decent Wacom on Photoshop is a dream...getting anything above the basic (where is the pen) functionality is a pain in GIMP.
Anyone using Photoshop without a Wacom in a professional capacity needs to have a "chat" with their purchasing department.
By that I mean from the end user's point of view, as well as the goodness of synaptic, it would be nice if they could download the "image" of the application as a single file and either:
- drag it onto their desktop to install it automagically or
- choose where they want to install the app and drop the whole thing
there
- with the resulting folder being clickable to start the application
etc.
I have recently acquired a 2nd hand Powerbook running OSX for my girlfriend and was wondering how much work it would be to get that ease of installation on a Linux box....Like with OSX there are always going to be some non userspace things that cannot be installed in this manner but why can't something be implemented that allows drag and drop of applications.