Installing GIMPshop and fighting with Synaptic

[Eric Dunbar]

On 2/9/06, dan <hentaidan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 09/02/06, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > [1] The GIMP interface is pretty half-assed... GIMP could certainly do
> > better than all the #$!%!$# windows it has now.
>
> I'm surprised by how often I hear that comment. I love having a
> million windows to move around, put where I want (as well as on other
> desktops). I love having my entire screen devoted to my image, I love
> being able to resize the layers dialogue so I can read my insanely
> long layer names.

I think the problem is that there isn't a particularly good GNOME/KDE
solution for those "little" floaty windows. In Mac OS X (and
presumably Windows) Photoshop you can "pin" all those !#$%! floaty
windows so they stop floating and form one amorphous mass.

> But then I've never used Photoshop, so I wouldn't know what the
> alternative is like ;)
>
> I just wish GIMP would stop insisting on using in excess of 1.2 GB of
> memory at the moment :)

You _are_ using Photoshop after all :-P See... you do know Photoshop!!!