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Re: GIMP Single-Window Mode Almost Ready, Hardware Acceleration Planned

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I think I might like a single window mode. I am not a "power user", but I regularily use Gimp when I do artwork for my homepage or climbing blog. I'll have to give it a try soon.

Its useful (try the preview 2.7.3 version). Can't set it as an option yet.

Re: GIMP Single-Window Mode Almost Ready, Hardware Acceleration Planned

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post #3

I think I might like a single window mode. I am not a "power user", but I regularily use Gimp when I do artwork for my homepage or climbing blog. I'll have to give it a try soon.

Its useful (try the preview 2.7.3 version). Can't set it as an option yet.

Sorry I meant can't set single window as the start up option as yet, you get the three windows then have to select single window from the Tools menu

Re: GIMP Single-Window Mode Almost Ready, Hardware Acceleration Planned

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Duke Nukem Forever has already been released, just sayin'.

Wine reached 1.0, gmail got out of beta, Starcraft II released. Little risk of GNU Hurd shipping any time soon though...

I don't know, GNU Hurd was taken up for GSOC. We could see amazing things yet :)

Re: GIMP Single-Window Mode Almost Ready, Hardware Acceleration Planned

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I have been using GIMP for 9 months and the UI is exasperating.

It's not just multi-window mode, things like the way the windows are rendered and designed, focus issues, shortcuts, missing features and a lot of other annoyances.

The most disappointing thing is that I'm not even doing intensive graphical work, just retouching some photos, moving things around, resizing, etc.

Re: GIMP Single-Window Mode Almost Ready, Hardware Acceleration Planned

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post #8

I have been using GIMP for 9 months and the UI is exasperating. It's not just multi-window mode, things like the way the windows are rendered and designed, focus issues, shortcuts, missing features and a lot of other annoyances. The most disappointing thing is that I'm not even doing intensive graphical work, just retouching some photos, moving things around, resizing, etc.

Some aspects of Gimp are a little bit annoying (especially on a Mac), but you can do pretty cool things with it once you get used to it. I do some artwork for some web sites I created and Gimp is a good tool for this. Photoshop probably would be better, but for as little as I do me it is way too expensive.
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