Installing GIMPshop and fighting with Synaptic

[Eric Dunbar]

On 2/9/06, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that Gimp and Gimpshop are nearly the same beast. On OS X I
> recently downloaded Gimp.app (a Mac OS X compiled version of Gimp that
> has all the dependencies built-in) and Gimpshop (ditto as for
> Gimp.app).
>
> After I ran the little application that came with Gimpshop to update
> the keyboard settings for Gimpshop, I also discovered that Gimp.app
> now functioned with Photoshop shortcuts.

i.e. all Gimpshop appears to be (at least to me) is Gimp with a
different set of preferences... perhaps there are some other
differences?

> PS Does anyone know how to program the delete/backspace keys to
> actually DELETE a selection?
>
> It's not possible to reassign the keystroke in the preferences pane
> for Gimp/Gimpshop since forward or backwards delete both clear the
> keystroke -- they can't actually be assigned :-( :-( :-(