My 2 naya paisa: >So the demand must come from the industry.
In the case of Gimp, I am afraid industry will not adopt it until unless the UI becomes user friendly. The software is powerful and has every feature that competition has. Now the colour management also works almost fine & and only real issue is 16 bit support. Now, due the usability issues, the productivity will be much less and hence the industry will not adopt it. ie publishing houses, graphic processing houses etc. Also the lack of 16 bit support & good colour management makes it difficult to use for professional print purposes. Cine Paint is out there, but it lacks features and usability even though it claims to have a better image processing engine compared to Gimp. I am not familiar with inkscape but the UX seems to be really good. Being said, this, showing the world the work that is done with Gimp can be a good idea and that will interest people adopt the tool. If a group of college students take up to change the UI a bit I think that will be a good final year project and it could possibly win a gsoc entry too. Another idea will be to add 16 bit support but I am not sure the image processing engine is extensible. But these two will be tremendous value to human kind. ~ bobinson _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
