Sweet. What program does "special transparenct patterns and skins..."? The gimp is indeed used by many people who develop skins for other programs or window managers... it has full channel control with alpha layer, so you can manage as many layers as you like (this is also how it handles animation)... you can flatten (via "export") an image to be able to save your final product as jpg, gif, bmp etc... I believe png's can be savedwith an alpha layer, and even jpg's? (anyone know for sure?) OS X is awesome, although on an older (slower) g3 with less ram it might seem slower than older mac OS -- if she installs without "classic mode" I believe it will run faster (since it's only running one OS as a time, instead of effectively running 2 kernels, afaik) but then she won't be able to use all the same apps she's familiar with... a lot of stuff has been ported to OS X, though, and then you get access to ALL SORTS of unix/bsd software, including X windows, the gimp, etc etc etc. As far as a good word processor for your sis: you'd probably want something native to OS X... using KDE or Gnome will only add to the memory requirements... although it should be pretty seamless and a VERY NICE working environment. I see OS X as the new ideal for computing user interface. Have fun!
ben On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 10:20, Ben Huot wrote: > Mandrake detected my cd-burner fine and xcdroast burned it fine. Does joliet > (for windows) and iso 9660 level 2 (for mac). I tested it under windows and > it worked fine. > > I found this program that does special transparenct patterns and skins and > has some very beautiful textures. I know Gimp doesn't do that - is there > anything on Linux that does that? > > BTW I use Gimp on windows and it works fine - I have 128 mb ram and I can > finally do the logos - they even have a cow one. Couldn't get the logos to > work on Linux with 48 mb ram. > > My sister is gettting Mac OS X and I will see what open source programs will > work on that. It won't screw up her system - will it? She has a g3 with 98 > mb ram. > > Any good word processor for her - I know abiword will be ported to OS X. > > Ben > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- -- Ben Barrett Software & Systems Engineer counterclaim Phone: 541.484.9235 Fax: 541.484.9193
