Re: GUIs: Motif or ...? (was Re: tlug: Fw: Could Linux Kill NT?)

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

>Paint shop pro does this, too.  It just creates a huge background window
>which really isn't used for anything except to provide the illusion that
>the toolbar is in the same window as the image.. :)

It doesn't make you click once on the tool bar just to get its
attention, then click again to do what you want, then click the image
again to get it's attention, then click where you want to modify it.
That is a MAJOR pain in the butt.  The image in Paintshop Pro really is
in the same window, too (well, it's a child window that belongs to the
big one).  You can't move it outside.  In GIMP, though, they really are
separate.  And I hate that :-)

>As far as a decent graphics tool - I do ALL my graphics work, both for
>TurboLinux and for my game that I'm making, using XPaint and the Gimp.

Guess what happens with XPaint if your X color depth isn't 16M colors.
Your image color depth never will be, either (according to the docs,
anyway).  Can you say "No 16M color JPEGs?"

>Now, granted I'm not a computer graphics specialist, but I find the tools
>very useful.  I used to use Paint Shop Pro (the 16-bit version works great
>under WINE, by the way), but not anymore.

If you haven't used Paint Shop Pro since version 3, you haven't used
Paint Shop Pro. Not only is its present version (5) better than
gimpy GIMP, it's better than Photoshop at a lot of stuff, and easier
than Photoshop at just about everything.  If you have a Windows 95 or NT
machine lurking in a closet somewhere and take it out late at night when
no one is watching, you really ought to get ahold of Paintshop Pro 5 and
try it out :-)

Cheers,

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>

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