** Hugo Mills <hugo@???> [2009-11-19 16:37]:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:06:54PM +0000, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 November 2009 14:56:39 Jack Knight wrote:
> > > Stephen Davies wrote:
> > > > /. is reporting the Gimp is being dropped from the next release of
> > > > Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > ... to be replaced by what?
> > >
> > > > One reason cited is that it is to complicated to use and that users want
> > > > something like 'mspaint' (washes mouth out with soap)
> > > >
> > > > My initial reaction is 'wtf'?
> > >
> > > +1
> >
> > According to http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/gimp-to-be-removed-lucid.html
> > GIMP won't be dropped entirely (that would be totally stupid) it's just not
> > being installed by default. F-Spot will be installed by default.
>
> That makes perfect sense to me. I can't imagine the vast majority
> of people wanting much beyond rotating, scaling, cropping and
> tagging/indexing of the images. (And that's pushing it...)
>
> > It still seems a little silly to me though. GIMP doesn't take that long to
> > learn the basics.
>
> For the items I listed above, it's massive overkill, and it's hard
> to find the relevant tools within the gigantic list of other options.
** end quote [Hugo Mills]
I tend to use one or two other features once in a while, depending on what I'm
doing, but still go for Gimp. Partly this is because I initially only really
considered F-Spot to be a manager rather than having editing features built in
(until I found it installed by default and actually took a proper look!).
Mainly it is because I'm used to a more traditional interface, and additionally
find that F-Spot is agonisingly slow compared to Gimp. I know that may sound
odd, but having just confirmed my view on this netbook I find that simply
highlighting an area to crop in F-Spot is borderline unusable in terms of speed,
whereas Gimp performs quite happily. That said some of the features like
constraining the ratio on a crop do look quite nice, so maybe on a higher spec
machine it may be worth another try.
It looks as though I'll have to add Gimp to my default additional apps to
install, along with Thunderbird, Vim, Mutt, etc.. I must look at getting rid of
Evolution some day, it may reduce resource usage a bit given that it seems to
run services by default that I don't use - unless it's too integrated in to
Gnome that is!
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