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Posted Feb 28, 2007 3:05 UTC (Wed) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)
In reply to: "Dependent on" ??? by eklitzke
Parent article: Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox (Inc)

> TeX/LaTeX. There is simply no competing tool to do what this does in the open source world.
Of course there is: XHTML + CSS + MathML + SVG, rendered by your favorite browser. For some things (complicated mathematical formulas, bibliography), TeX is more convenient to use. For other things (complicated table layout, designing new styles from scratch), XHTML is easier.

> AFAICT not a lot of fresh new development is going on on the GIMP
There is a massive amount of development going on. GEGL (http://www.gegl.org/), the next-gen GIMP core, is finally getting off the ground. With it, future versions of the GIMP will have full support for 16-bit color, RAW, color management, CMYK, etc. GIMP devs are also working on a next-generation file format, OpenRaster (http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/OpenRaster) to correct the deficiencies of XCF (which is strongly tied to GIMP's current (obsolescent) core).

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Posted Feb 28, 2007 4:07 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

""here is a massive amount of development going on.""

Although I wouldn't considure it massive, Gimp certainly is plodding along.

Right now certain Gegl is finally, after many years, starting to work well. When that is integrated into Gimp it will certainly make people reevaluate their own block-head-iness when they realise the reason they didn't like Gimp was more to do with their personal dependance on Photoshop's menu layouts rather then lack of 16bit colors, cymk, and 'RAW image format' support in current Gimp.

With the current development branch of Gimp it is certainly faster and more pleasent to use. I prefer it much over the current stable (I am using the version from Debian Experimental through the magic of apt-pinning)

Once 2.4 gets out the door then your probably going to see quite a bit of development regarding integrating Gegl.