Amen, brother! I have a nice default image viewer that does most of what
I want, another one I need to use for GIF animations, and of course The
GIMP, any of which I can pick from a right-click on the Nautilus file
browser screen. Plus one that I usually start from a desktop icon to do
slideshows. I almost always want to do /*one*/ of these things. Don't
really need a "Swiss Navy" knife.
Jim Hartley
Phil M Perry wrote:
This may be more a matter of philosophy than any thing else, but this
FastStone sounds like it's trying to be a Swiss Army Knife (or maybe a
Leatherman Tool) of image processors. The Unix approach would be to
build several small tools that each do one thing well, rather than
throwing everything including the kitchen sink into the pile. The
advantage is having smaller, faster loading tools, without extra
features loaded that you won't be using at the moment, without paying
for extra cruft that you'll never use, without having to upgrade
everything at once, and without having to settle for someone else's
idea of what the proper mix of features is. The disadvantage is that
if you have several tasks to accomplish on an image, you might have to
successively load and run several different programs, with different
interfaces. The choice is yours: the Microsoft/IBM philosophy
(everything you could possibly want in one package) versus the Unix
philosophy (several small, focused tools).
On 7/5/2010 1:22 AM, WestHurley ComputerReCycling wrote:
FastStone ... has a lot
of little things from being a RAW Converter to Image Resizer to 2-4
Image Comparison...
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