It’s such a big deal that I really don’t know what the heck are features like “port to GTK3”, “improve animation features” and such doing in front of it in the roadmap pointed out by /u/eXoRainbow. I wished the GIMP guys could hear of this. I’d tell them that the Layers box (or an eventual nodes view) is almost as important as the viewport itself.
#linux #gimp #open-source #open_source #freedom #nondestructive #non_destructive #feature #gtk #competition
i’ve installed gthumb today in order to search for necessary photos through the recovered files. it turned out, I cannot hide the window by double clicking it’s titlebar. this is unlike any other application window running in my windowmaker. probably that happens because it’s gtk3 application. double click on the something like titlebar makes it fullscreen.
sigh.
#gthumb #gtk #gtk3 #windowmaker #titlebar #folding #software
mobile device manufacturers are trying to advertise their products as means of creativity. not only means of consumption. which is also good, because it’s about us. we want to be creative, not only consume.
i would like to say, let’s not forget, that we have amazing tool for creative work, right under ours very nose, but it becomes more and more neglected.
it is banal desktop personal computer.
it has terrific operating systems, well developed, toolkits and frameworks for writing software, diverse tools for creative work - photoshop and gimp, inkscape and illustrator, maya and blender, different cad systems for architects and engineers, cool software to create movies and animations.
btw, it’s symptomatic, that gtk toolkit was created in order to write gimp. (: because if you have such cool programs it means you have cool tools to write them.
on the contrary on mobile we have tools like instagram and picsart (btw, latter is developed in armenia, some of my friends work there, it’s founded by my former chief), and those tools are more like toys, too primitive.
and when you have only mobile device you have much more limited possibilities to learn, to go deeper, if you are curious. if you use windows, you can discover cmd, regedit, download real visual studio, use real professional tools like adobe illustrator, even when pirated. on mobile you cannot have such tools. you cannot make creative work which demands more tools, more efforts, and more knowledge, more personal development. that’s why i liked my n810 with maemo, it was basically hildon over debian, and when you have debian, it means whole gnu/linux world in your hands, you have tools, you can go deeper, do and learn a lot.
so this all beauty - development frameworks, toolkits, creative and professional tools, it’s all now neglected by the society which is amazed with mobile so called apps.
#mobile #desktop #photoshop #gimp #illustrator #inkscape #blender #instagram #picsart #console #tools #programming #gtk #debian #maemo #creativity
what i really miss in sailfish, is possibility to compile/run non qt desktop applications. I was able to run pidgin in maemo. I know it might not be convenient for some to use desktop apps on mobile, but I really miss this possibility. GTK port could improve the situation.
#jolla #sailfish #gtk
who knows, why plain #text #editors, or #browsers, try to compact two neighbor letters into one #ligature, if it is possible? is there a way to manage this? is this #gtk feature?
