GIMP dropped from default Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx installation

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GIMP suffers from the same problem that afflicts quite a few open source products. Technically a pretty good program, but aesthetically dreadful and cursed with a dumb name.

Oddly, that sort of thing seems to happen more on the Linux platform than any other, and GIMP was originally a Linux program.

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I can understand this move personally, its easy enough to install GIMP from the repositories anyway. Not to mention it isn't actually packaged with Kubuntu, the Linux distro that I use mostly anyway.

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uh, have you ever used blender?

AARRRRRRRGGGGHHH!

*hides under desk*

Too true, Blender's interface is a nightmare compared to the GIMP. And even in the commercial software world, I can think of several offhand that are far more convoluted than GIMP. Final Cut, Avid, Reason, and Cinema4D come to mind.

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It has an ugly, horrific interface AND it has an ugly, offensive name.

It has been one of the major forces holding Linux back. A true testament to everything wrong with Linux - software writers gifted enough to create something powerful, and at the same time they simply lack the desire to make it more accessible to anyone who gives a damn about appearance.

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You know there's a problem when users have to google a tutorial on how to draw a freaking line.
Select pencil (or paintbrush, if that floats your boat). Click a spot. Hold shift. Move your mouse to get the line you want, then click and the line appears.

Yup. Seriously complicated.

It has an ugly, horrific interface AND it has an ugly, offensive name.

It has been one of the major forces holding Linux back. A true testament to everything wrong with Linux - software writers gifted enough to create something powerful, and at the same time they simply lack the desire to make it more accessible to anyone who gives a damn about appearance.

Hey, good news! It's dropped from Ubuntu's default. Now, with that "major force holding Linux back", it's gonna finally be the Year of the Linux Deskop!

Absurd? Yup.

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Ravensky

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Who cares!

sudo apt-get install gimp

Wow that's too hard to type? *sigh*

You know there's a problem when users have to google a tutorial on how to draw a freaking line.

Anyone that dumb didn't install Linux...so why are they using it?

LMAO!

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I agree with those saying that the interface is too convoluted and ugly.

Fortunately for people with Windows there's Paint.NET.

I think the reason they are removing it is that just a few people use it. Most prefer to use F-Spot.

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FloatingFatMan

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Hey, good news! It's dropped from Ubuntu's default. Now, with that "major force holding Linux back", it's gonna finally be the Year of the Linux Deskop!

Absurd? Yup.

The GUI of GIMP isn't what's holding Linux back...

Anyone that dumb didn't install Linux...so why are they using it?

LMAO!

^^ THIS is what's holding Linux back. The attitude problem portrayed by an unfortunately large number of its users when anyone with no Linux experience attempts to use it. God help you if you should dare try asking for help on some of the Linux forums...

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^^ THIS is what's holding Linux back. The attitude problem portrayed by an unfortunately large number of its users when anyone with no Linux experience attempts to use it. God help you if you should dare try asking for help on some of the Linux forums...

Couldn't agree more.

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Playing with Mono/C# in Linux is like playing Russian Roulette with a Rocket Launcher.

That may be so; I am not a programmer so I wouldn't know. However, Gnome-do, F-Spot and Tomboy surely prove that Mono is a viable platform, ergo a port of Paint.Net included in a future version of Ubuntu is not outside the realms of possibility?

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That may be so; I am not a programmer so I wouldn't know. However, Gnome-do, F-Spot and Tomboy surely prove that Mono is a viable platform, ergo a port of Paint.Net included in a future version of Ubuntu is not outside the realms of possibility?

It's more of a licensing issue.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/67387.html

Basically, any big developments using Mono is akin to bending over for Microsoft and waiting for the inevitable.

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