Ross, my hair are almost white, I am sorry but you need a bigger effort in order to discourage me š Have a nice evening. Maurizio
Il 22 ott 2017 19:36, "Ross Martinek" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Alex, > > I said I was an old curmudgeon. ;^] Itās only my opinion, based on my > experience, not wisdom from on high, and while strongly held, Iāve no > objection to being shown Iām in error, or that my conclusions arenāt > supported by your or othersā data (as you did.) > > If you are talking about my comments on documentation, I really do > identify and sympathize with those creating this delightful tool: writing > documentation of something one understands thoroughly is very difficult, in > part because of the very expertise needed to do so. It often feels as if > one is stating the blatantly obvious, over and over again. I have all too > much experience with that, and the other frustrations inherent in the > process. > > I did not intend to denigrate the free, online documentation that exists, > only to say that it could be better. If developers are going to work on > something besides development, I think that is a better use of time. By > comparison with other, similar, open source programs, GIMPās is better > than many, if not most. It gets one off to a good start. > > I hesitated to mention a commercial product which actually does a good job > of documentation. I have found The Book of GIMP, by LeCarme and Delvare to > be an invaluable resource in learning GIMP. Itās expensive, but the > software is free, and the book costs far less than most graphics programs > (or at least it did when I bought it.) (Shameless plug, and no, I donāt get > anything for it.) > > As for marketing, if that is a concern, the way Literature and Latte > markets their products might be worth a look. Scrivener, their writing app, > is phenomenal. It isnāt free, like GIMP, but it is very affordable. Would I > pay the price of Scrivener for GIMP? As my physics prof was fond of saying, > āThatās not only obvious, itās an obvious, obvious.ā > > And Maurizio, I also appreciate your enthusiasm. I just think itās > slightly misplaced. Donāt let my stentorian objections discourage you. > > Ross > > > > On Oct 22, 2017, at 11:29 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Ross Martinek wrote: > > > >> While there may be some PS features > >> not available (yet?) in GIMP, the only advantage of PS I see is its > >> documentation. > > > > Ross, I appreciate your loyalty to the project, but you aren't making > > any friends right now :))) > > > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-user-list mailing list > > List address: [email protected] > > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: [email protected] > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
