Hi Alan,
I'm glad to see my favourite Abiword included by default for a change.
Yes, I like Abiword too. It reminds me of MS Word 5.1 on the Mac I used to use about nine years ago - does one job well, and doesn't try to interfere with your work. We couldn't include OpenOffice.org because there was no native amd64 version last time we looked.
I'd encourage you to grab the patches Ubuntu used to neuter the GIMP installer which annoys users the first time they run the program.
Thanks for the tip. We've got bigger annoyances than that though :-)
I'm not a fan of Microsoft C# but the gimp-sharp project is looking good so far
We've avoided C# apps so far, as I'm not convinced that Microsoft won't try to claim patents on some related technology in the future.
there is a lot you could do to produce a better custom version of the gimp
So far, the GIMP does the job for everything except CMYK images, for example to use in Scribus for pre-press work. We may package Cinepaint Glasgow when that comes out, for CMYK and other format support that the GIMP lacks.
The gimp animation package (GAP) might be worth including with your version of the GIMP.
I've never used that - I'll have to give it a try. I do think we need a vector animation tool though.
I'm holding out hopes for Pitivi, the fact that Fluendo are backing it and using it themselves bodes well
Yes, we've also been keeping an eye on Pitivi, but as we understand it, it isn't ready for actual editing yet.
Jakasha always struck me as a rather ugly beast, especially how their went about reinventing the desktop/workspaces inside their own application
They've just added a bunch of new developers and are planning some major releases later in the year, starting with a new player.
If you could bring together the other applications under a simliar set of themes you could really unify the look of 64studio and make it look like a real multimedia workstation.
So far, we're using a Qt theme that looks a bit like GTK to go some way towards this. There are too many toolkits in use to get perfect integration yet, but there is the Portland project: http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/
One last big idea I had was that distributions might also include windows versions of certain software, to help users with compatibility on other machines or to give to their friends who are not yet ready to switch to Linux but are willing to use open standard and free software.
The OpenCD project is already doing that: http://www.theopencd.org/
Best of luck with 64studio
Thanks! Daniel _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
