El dom, 09-02-2014 a las 20:20 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine escribió: > On Feb 09 2014, 19:25 Gez wrote: > > > GIMP is way beyond the stage of getting exposure and growing a userbase. > > I have some very serious doubts about that :) What I meant is that "exposure" is something GIMP already has. It doesn't have a huge userbase because people don't choose it, not because they ignore its existence. Considering the product vision, I'd say that an important part of the target audience doesn't choose it because some of its limitations. Fortunately those limitations are being addressed, but developer time is required for that to happen, hence... > > > The attention should be put on making it better and more suitable to its > > target audience, and that requires devolopers and a lot of work, and I > > doubt that Steam (or any other non-free distribution channel) can make > > any difference in that regard. > > That's apples and oranges :) Developers and packagers are not the same > people in the GIMP team. I'm slightly concerned about how distributing > GIMP through Steam is going to affect packagers, but I'm not worried > about developers at all in that regard. Yes, you're right and again I didn't express myself with clarity. In my head :-p the logic was: perhaps making GIMP comply with the requirements of Steam does require some developer work. I'm no sure about this, but what about input devices? It will be ok to include a program which is basically controlled by keyboard/mouse/drawing tablet in a computer intended to work as a game console, or will they require the program to work with their controller? Blender and Krita developers seem to be willing to push their programs in Steam, so I wouldn't be surprised if they devote some resources to make it happen. Something that doesn't seem to be the case for GIMP, and that wouldn't report a real benefit to the project. Gez _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
