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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: KDE2 license policy
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-08-04 17:54:45
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It's in KOffice CVS and has a damn lot of code for something that
doesn't exist...

Patrick O Neil wrote:
> 
> When Kimageshop was mentioned, I went and looked for it.  It doesn't
> exist, except in theory.  There is no release available, not even an alpha,
> according to the site.  If it was there I would give it a try and even if
> it were alpha, as long as it could handle a few things I need such an app
> for,
> I would use it.
> 
> I am not a programmer so I cannot join in and help.  The Gimp is very
> mature and quite good, overall, thus I saw it/see it as a quicker and
> easier deal to alter.
> 
> Rant mode on:
> Although it (the Gimp) being entirely pixel based
> annoys me no end...who cares about pixels when you intend to print
> an image that is a simple, never variant, x inches by x inches in
> dimension?  I certainly hope that kimageshop allows for inches/cm
> as well as pixels.  3 inches is 3 inches no matter WHAT size screen
> you have or what resolution you are running it at.  Gimp developers
> have told me that it wouldn't work.  Tell Aldus or Adobe or Corel that
> dimensions like inches or cm don't work or are improper.  Their apps
> ARE professional apps and they ALL use real-world, discreet measurements.
> 
> I simply have wanted to take a scanned image of discreet dimensions
> (3.75 inches by 1.75 inches), edit it, and then print it out as a
> 3.75 inch by 1.75 inch image on my printer.  Simple, so you would think,
> but NOT using the Gimp it isn't.  By trial an error, using that damnable
> pixel nonsense, I had to scale my image down and print it out repeatedly
> until I finally got an output image from my printer that was close to
> the dimensions I desired as I could seem to get it.  No professional
> graphics
> app does this to you.  One should be able to work in pixels, if they want,
> but they should also be able to simply format their image as A x B cm or
> inches and have it print out in those dimensions.  Please make KimageShop
> do this.
> 
> Aldus Freehand does it.  Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop do it.  Corel
> apps do it.  Gimp doesn't and the developers can't see why it should
> (last time I asked about it).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Forge
> To: KDE general mailing list
> Sent: 8/4/00 6:13 AM
> Subject: Re: KDE2 license policy
> 
> Enough already.  There is no good reason to go out and pick a
> fight.  That is what porting a GTK app to KDE amounts to.  the
> fact is that QT/KDElibs is so good starting from scratch and
> writing a whole new app from scratch to duplicate and even
> enhance the functionality of that GTK app isn't so tough ( As
> programing jobs go )
> 
> You want to do all KDE Image Manipulation ?  Use kimageshope
> and spend a little time to help enhance it.  It already support
> Gimp plugins.
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