Re: Hack turns GIMP into Photoshop Look-alike

[David Marrs <David.Marrs@atmyrealbox.com>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> I thought some of you might find this interesting. It is from Slashdot,
> published about an hour ago:
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/231227&tid=152&tid=156
>
> Mr_Silver writes "One of the many complaints about the GIMP is that of its
> user interface and how it should be more like Photoshop. If you feel that
> this is true then Scott Moschella has hacked together GimpShop which turns
> GIMP's user interface into something more akin to Photoshop for OSX.
> However, if you're not running that operating system, fret not, because
> there is a version for Linux too."

I never understand the logic behind moving from a mature product like 
Photoshop to the GIMP when one /prefers/ Photoshop in the first place. 
It's almost as if these users were running the crack.

I'd rather that all this effort had been put into actually improving the 
GIMP's UI instead of just making it behave like Photoshop (which strikes 
me as a tad lazy), but, if nothing else, it does go to show the 
flexibility of free software.