Wrote Matthew Dalton on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 03:45:10PM +1000:
> Dean Hamstead wrote:
> >
> > Craig has said basically what im saying
> > gimp is a nice app with tonnes of power and the interfacing is nice and
> > minimalistic
> > very logical and heirachicial
>
> Remember a few months ago when Chuck and co gave the Docbook
> presentation? Remember Chuck's 'circles' that he hand drew because he
> couldn't work out how to use the Gimp to draw a simple circle?
>
> Doesn't sound like such a good interface to me.
That or user stupidity =)
I stick to Dia for diagrams now, it is much cooler..
> About the only real thing that I've used gimp for is generating web page
> headings with the awesome script-fu/logos scripts. It's a pity that you
> always have to type in the name of the font you want to use though. It
> comes up with a proper font list menu when you use the text tool, so why
> cant it do the same for script-fu scripts? I usually have to start a
> dummy project so I can use the text tool to get a font listing up, then
> type the name of the one I want into the script-fu box. It works, but it
> sure is ugly.
Font selection still has a number of niggles as does many other parts of
the Gimp. Things like when scrolling through the list, trying to find a
funkous font, it doesn't remember which style you were looking at
(italic, regular, etc) so sometimes you get italic, sometimes regular.
A good thorough go through to find all the small things like that would
be great. Although I have a feeling that there are already people
working on this because niggles disappear with every new release.
Chuck
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