On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 01:15:15PM -0500, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > > > On Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:19:03 +0100, Torsten Rahn <supas121@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > > GNOME claims GIMP as part of GNOME because GIMP is better than any of > > the existing GNOME apps. They're trying to piggyback on our success. > > Personally, I think this is odious, but hey... > > GNOME claims GIMP as a part of GNOME because it really *should be*. As > desktop agnostic as GIMP pretends to be, it requires all the same things > the GNOME requires, You are 100% incorrect. GIMP runs on Win32. GNOME gives no consideration to this platforms, as far as I know. GIMP should be kept as independant from GNOME as possible. > and can't be configured through any of the standard > mechanisms for those things (the GNOME people were gracious enough to make > GTK themes in such a way that they apply to GIMP, but they can't do much > other than that -- dialogs and buttons in GIMP will never look quite > 'right' on any desktop.) Perhaps some of the GIMP team think GNOME's standard mechanisms aren't that great currently and not good enough for GIMP. I certainly think the UI quality of configuring things in GNOME is poor at best. > > GIMP, after all, spawned GNOME -- if it weren't for GTK, GNOME probably > never would have been started in the first place. GNOME extended the > rather clean and well-designed UI of the gimp into an entire desktop > environment. I agree. GNOME is really part of GIMP. Now let's figure out which parts to keep and throw the rest away. ;-) -Shawn -- Shawn T. Amundson amundson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Research and Development http://www.eventloop.com/ EventLoop, Inc. http://www.snorfle.net/ "The assumption that the universe looks the same in every direction is clearly not true in reality." - Stephen Hawking
