hello, i cut a lot of really positive and good comments from this email. i am sorry to do that, but the format was difficult for this mail list. did you send mail in html format? maybe the line length was too long. at any rate, your email included wishing for an image browser based on the MySQL database. this is sort of an old url by now, but the original gimp news person wrote this about that: http://www.xach.com/aolserver/mysql-to-postgresql.html i will totally admit that i have no idea how much this applies to your wishes, but one thing about the original gimp news person; he really loved linux. there is another thread on another list right now about the xsane plug-in. i mention it here because this might be a very good approach to get what you want. and if it is written properly with a good base software, then all of the different art applications should/might be able to benefit from it. the xsane plug-in works this way. you install xsane and it sees if you have gimp installed and adds itself to the menu. there are always problems with this plug-in but it is dealing with hardware which is not as simple or predictable as pure software applications. it is difficult for me to imagine what it is that you want, especially given the way that photoshop doesn't work on linux. i tend to refuse to use wine to get access to apps that do things that already work (often better) here on linux. but if you could find clever and ambitious people who could possibly write this thing that you described and write it in a way that works with all of the gpl'd applications, we would be certainly getting somewhere and the total of all of these groups will probably make the giants beg for mercy, or something like that. maybe quiver and die. or even better, re-define themselves and provide a better challenge next time around. it would be a nice project for some new and motivated upstarts! thanks again for the positive feed back. microsoft tends to produce a whine that is so irritating at times that the desire to remove access to the software becomes very strong! and that is no way to live. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
