2008/9/12 Eli Billauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi again. > > > Well, it looks like there is some interest, after all... > > > Given that two weeks from next lecture happens to be September 29th, > which is Erev Rosh HaShana, we could either go for October 6th or > September 22nd (making it sort-of-SiL). I'm fine with both. >
I would prefer September 22nd, as I begin work in October. > > Dave Roi wrote: > >> I think the more important issue here is the fact that we, as a more >> technically inclined user group, are having such a hard time using it, >> how do we expect the simple windows user to do so? > > There are plenty of simple tools out there, under Windows, for simple > uses. Once you want to do something more advanced, you need a more > sophisticated tool, which is not going to be simple to use. You can't > have them both. > Well, I have both Kolourpaint and GIMP installed. So, technically, you could have them both but maybe not in the same application. > I think that the main reason GIMP has frustrated so many, is that it's > more or less the *only* tool around for Linux machines, so even those > with the simple tasks are forced to go for a sophisticated tool. The > problem is not GIMP, but the lack of some (well known and widespread) > quick-and-dirty tool for image manipulation under Linux. > [koulor|tux]paint? Kolourpaint comes with KDE, so it should be a least a little widespread. > The solution offered: Learn the tool. ;) > Next Monday? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
