2012/1/26 Miles Bader <miles@xxxxxxx>: > Martin Nordholts <enselic@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> If you rarely use the XCF format you are not part of the target user >> group. The separation of save and export is for users that do complex >> compositions in XCF and export every now and then. > > This seems like a completely bizarre statement. > > Who exactly is git being "targetted" at?! > > 'cause the above doesn't seem to include much of its current user-base > -- the Gimp is the default image editor for many, many, systems, and I > wouldn't be surprised if 95% of Gimp users don't even know what XCF is, > much less actually use it... GIMP should not be the default image editor (which Ubuntu realized long ago [1]), because GIMP does not aim to be a JPEG touch-up application, but a high-end photo manipulation application. If GIMP tries to be both an easy to use JPEG touch-up application and a high-end photo manipulation application at the same time, it will never become a great application, just as a car can never be a great car if it tries to be both a Ferrari and a Jeep at the same time. We could have chosen to direct GIMP towards becoming a great JPEG touch-up application, but there are several good ones in existence already, and to be honest it is quite a boring app to develop, so we went for focusing on creating a high-end photo manipulation application instead. / Martin [1] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/11/giving-up-the-gimp-is-a-sign-of-ubuntus-mainstream-maturity.ars -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "Single-window mode feature complete" _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
