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Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net)
Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net)
Posted Feb 21, 2008 19:15 UTC (Thu) by dank (subscriber, #1865)In reply to: Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net) by bronson
Parent article: Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net)
Improving gimp would help migrate a few graphic designers, or at least those that didn't need any plugins (which are windows dlls). But improving wine might help migrate... everybody. BTW, Ars had a better article: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080219-google-into... and the original announcements were here: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-spon... http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2008-February/...
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Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net)
Posted Feb 22, 2008 5:57 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
gimp is available from their distribution now. No need for extra setup. Photoshop is a proprietary application that will never be properly integrated with their desktop, because distros can't do that. Let alone simplfy its installation (and upgrade, security fixes, and such).
And all if this does not matter...
Posted Feb 22, 2008 7:28 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Because people who are using Photoshop for professional work don't need anything else. They are happy to use Windows, Mac, Linux, etc - as long as Photoshop is included. It's not just theme or lack of simple features (when you try to transform transparent layer it becomes opaque - exactly when it's really, really bad). It the fact that all shortcuts are different, all dialogs are different, in short - it's totally different program. It does not mean GIMP is unusable - far from it. It just means that it's not an alternative to Photoshop...
And all if this does not matter...
Posted Feb 24, 2008 18:17 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
Shortcuts and such are the easy part. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop Most of the users, however, don't use their computer just for Adobe Photoshop.