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Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net)

Posted Feb 21, 2008 19:15 UTC (Thu) by sim0nx (subscriber, #23065)
In reply to: Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net) by bronson
Parent article: Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net)

It's not about the GUI, but rather the functionality.
Gimp is still completely unusable by professionals, because it doesn't 
support all the different color spaces and is limited to 8bit/channel 
only.

Should they finally merge gegl, I guess there would be no reason for not 
using gimp instead of photoshop.

The GUI layout is really only a matter of taste, I personally am very 
comfortable with it.

But I think it's a shame they support CodeWeavers instead of Wine (unless 
they release the code), and that they support such an emulation instead 
of a native port.

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It's all in Wine.

Posted Feb 21, 2008 19:26 UTC (Thu) by dank (subscriber, #1865) [Link]

Code already integrated into winehq.  See
http://code.google.com/opensource/wine.html
for a partial list.  (That page is missing 44 patches 
committed to winehq by Rob Shearman in March and April;
I'll add them when I get a chance.)

I imagine the improvements will show up in
Crossover sometime, too, but that wasn't our focus.

It's all in Wine.

Posted Feb 21, 2008 19:36 UTC (Thu) by sim0nx (subscriber, #23065) [Link]

Ah that's good to hear :-)

Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net)

Posted Feb 21, 2008 22:58 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link]

Much if not most of that stuff (colorspaces, up to 32-bits per color channel, more image formats) is already in the fork of the GIMP that became CinePaint (nee Film Gimp). It's widely used in the film industry.

Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net)

Posted Feb 22, 2008 2:10 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Gegl, which is still being actively developed, is the answer to those problems. It'll
potentially do anything photoshop can do and more.

Trouble is that instead of helping gimp out people just piss and moan about UI issues, even
though Gimp is now fully themable. 

If google put time into that then I'd be impressed. This Wine stuff was done for their own
purposes for applications like Picassa and now they finally released some of the improvements.

Not that I am not greatfull, but when your talking about Gimp keep in mind that it's lack of
attention that keeps it limited at 8bit color support and not anything fundamental.

If you want Gimp to support deep color and do everything that Photoshop can do, then you know
what to do. 

That's all.

Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net)

Posted Feb 22, 2008 6:35 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Codeweavers isn't "instead of" Wine.  All Codeweavers improvements go back to mainline Wine,
and Codeweavers employs major Wine developers, including the Wine project leader, Alexandre
Julliard.