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GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X

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Re: GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X

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Post by codeb »

stan_rogers wrote: post #85
dantheta wrote: post #26

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I'm not sure about photoshop killer ... although I do suspect that outside of the professional class of photoshop user (webdevs, print designers etc), a great many people who have a less-than-legitimate copy of photoshop and dramatically under-utilize its features could do worse than try out Gimp. These are the users for whom an entire copy of photoshop is massive overkill and a terrible waste - the absence of some p…

The real missing piece is 8BF (Photoshop plugin) compatibility. There is an entire ecosystem of productivity enhancement out there that's missing from the GIMP, at least from the professional photographer's point of view, that, absent a coding pro photographer scratching his own itch, probably isn't going to be filled. Selling a $200 plugin for a $600 program to reduce image turn-around times by an hour apiece works…

I disagree. Maybe one in ten of the professional photoshop artists I know use _ANY_ 3rd party plugins. I think the photoshop plugin ecosystem is surprisingly unhealthy for such a dominant platform.

I have tried to convince myself to put out some photoshop plugins, but I just don't see many people buying the plugins already out there.

Also the photoshop plugin API is crufty as hell.

What percentage of plugins out there are being rewarded well by the marketplace? I would bet that there are only a few plugins on the market right now that make a noticeable amount of profit.

Re: GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X

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Post by tincholio »

w1ntermute wrote: post #58
MikeCapone wrote: post #23

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Photoshop's splash screen doesn't stay on top of all other windows and steal focus, at least not in the version that I have. If anyone from GIMP is reading this, I strongly recommend that you fix that or at least allow us to disable the splash screen. Thank you.

Have you tried this: http://kuoi.com/~kamikaze/read.php?id=129 Looks kind of old, but it might still work.

Thank you kindly, sir, that worked! The current wrapper script is a bit different, but the same switch does the trick.

Re: GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X

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Post by semanticist »

kstenerud wrote: post #74
adgar wrote: post #34

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It sounds like your parent poster is saying it shows the splash screen over all applications and there's nothing you can do about it. Which is needlessly inconsiderate.

acidblue, your account has been hellbanned since 149 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3790146

Hellbanning can be really disturbing. This guy's been leaving comments for a year now with no idea that almost no one sees them.

That feels almost like a form of psychological torment to me. I recognise the value of hellbanning as a way to trap griefers, but I do think it's overused on HackerNews.

Re: GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X

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Post by tuananh »

randallsquared wrote: post #170
tuananh wrote: post #135

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exactly what i did. maybe it was changed in ML.

No, Lion exhibits this behavior for me. Close last TextEdit window, switch to another app, see TextEdit silently go away from the dock.

how long do i need to wait to observe that behavior?

Re: GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X

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Post by tripzilch »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #108
kstenerud wrote: post #74

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acidblue, your account has been hellbanned since 149 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3790146

Do: email pg if you're hellbanned. Do: Be civil and respond politely. Don't: create a throwaway account and whine about being hellbanned. Don't: create a new account without talking to pg first. Don't: take it personally.

Is that from the guidelines? The whole point of hellbanning is that the affected user doesn't know they're hellbanned (HN appears to them as if they aren't). So they can't do nr.1 unless someone tells them.

This is a great article that explains very clearly why hellbanning is in 99.5% of the cases the absolute wrong choice as it's being used on HN: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...

In addition, the guidelines can say "don't take it personally" all they want, but when someone wastes my time for 150 days when there are so many perfectly reasonable ways of solving the problem in common usage on successful discussion forums all over the web, yeah I would probably be a little bit miffed, myself.

It's one of the main reasons I keep an eye on my karma score, if it sometimes doesn't go up for a few days, I get nervous and check if I can still see my own comments via a proxy. It's absolutely ridiculous that I have to do it that way, but I've seen people get hellbanned for such petty things that yes, I really couldn't say I never will be one of "those people" that catch the wrong mod's attention at the wrong time before their coffee hit.

Re: GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X

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Post by randallsquared »

tuananh wrote: post #184
randallsquared wrote: post #170

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No, Lion exhibits this behavior for me. Close last TextEdit window, switch to another app, see TextEdit silently go away from the dock.

how long do i need to wait to observe that behavior?

It's immediate. Doesn't happen on Snow Leopard, for me.
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