If we are assuming "de-throne" means "to replace as what people think of as a photo editor", then it's more a matter of marketing than anything related to feature parity. Most people wouldn't know what features were "missing" in GIMP to compare in the first place. Most of the companies I work with are still rocking Adobe CS3, and clearly care nothing at all about new features, for example. On 4 Aug 2015 12:45 pm, "MichaelGrosberg" <grosberg.michael@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Webdrifter <onzemeelbox <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Dear developers, > > > > Photoshop has been the number One in photo editing for decades. Gimp has > always been the alternative > > that could never push Photoshop from it's throne, despite being free of > charge. However, potentially > > Gimp should be able to knock Photoshop of it's throne. But there are > three > reason is never has. > > Those reasons are: "interface", "interface" and "interface". > > I would like to politely disagree. > The surface reason Gimp has so far failed to dethrone Photoshop is that it > is light-years away from feature parity. GEGL, the back-end that's supposed > to allow Gimp to even have those features at some point in the future, is > still being worked on. the features themselves are years down the road. > > But that's just the surface reason. The real reason is lack of developers. > Gimp has been unable to attract developers in the numbers necessary to > create a Photoshop-killer. The reason, as I see it, is a lack of strong > leadership and vision. Blender, for example, has Ton Roosendaal, whose > vision and enthusiasm swept people and made Blender into the amazing piece > of software it is today. You need someone like Ton to attract people and > find backers and allies in the business world who can contribute man-hours, > expertise or money. As it is, though, the Gimp project is almost comatose. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
