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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Question about kimageshop creation reasons
From:       Michael Koch <m_koch () bigfoot ! de>
Date:       1999-08-24 9:12:50
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Hi,

The GIMP design has some missing features we want to implement.
GIMP only provides the RGB color model with 8 bits per color. We are providing
RGG, CMY(K), LAB,... Currently we are discussing about 16 bits per color
support.  I got some mails from users disappointed from GIMP because of this
missing features.

IMHO the user interface if GIMP is not so good. We want to make a better user
interface for easier using of KImageShop.

We cannot take so much code from GIMP because
- GIMP is written in C. We are coding in C++.
- The internal data structures don't fitting our demands.

Am Die, 24 Aug 1999 schrieb Joeri Sebrechts:
> I see you are creating an alternative to the gimp. Thereby creating
> competition on the open source world.
> I know the gimp doesn't really have an evolutionary future right now.
> But is it really worth al that effort to recreate a program (kimageshop)
> that already exists under the gpl ?
> I sure hope you're reusing the gimp code as much as you can.
> Hey, maybe it's my problem. But, I find it annoying every time I see two
> open source projects trying to build the same thing. Evn more so when
> one of them (in this case gimp) has already reached a more or less
> finished state. I find it such a waste of effort just when we (the open
> source / linux community) need to try to make as much "different" apps
> as we can as quick as possible. So as to overtake the desktop world with
> open sourced apps.
> When the desktop is ours I don't care how many people try to write the
> same app over and over. But untill then it's just slowing us down.
--
Michael Koch


KDE fan, enthusiast and developer

student of computer science at university of applied sciences of Darmstadt, Germany

koch@kde.org, m_koch@bigfoot.de, mkoch@mail.riednet.wh.tu-darmstadt.de
http://www.riednet.wh.tu-darmstadt.de/~mkoch

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