Why do people always have GIMP opened in their screenshots?

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wangxiaohu · Post by **wangxiaohu** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:21 pm

Is GIMP the only application that can represent Linux GUI? Do you really think it will impress others? (or attract them from Windows to Linux?)
Since I don't use GIMP at all, I am just curious to know.

Celtis · Post by **Celtis** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:24 pm

I guess it's just because it's easy to take screen shots from Gimp

diabx0r · Post by **diabx0r** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:40 pm

Are you a moron? Gimp has an 'Acquire' function that is used to ACQUIRE a screenshot... hence gimp being opened.

Lets put a little more effort into not looking like a dumbass, k?

Celtis · Post by **Celtis** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:48 pm

diabx0r wrote:

Are you a moron? Gimp has an 'Acquire' function that is used to ACQUIRE a screenshot... hence gimp being opened.

Lets put a little more effort into not looking like a dumbass, k?

lol, a bit harsh seeing as

wangxiaohu wrote:Since I don't use GIMP at all, I am just curious to know.

Qball · Post by **Qball** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:50 pm

/me grabs the pop-corn and waits for yet another flame war (tm)

diabx0r · Post by **diabx0r** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:56 pm

Ok ok... I apologize.

I guess the whole "Do you think it will impress people?" thing annoyed me.

/me huggles everyone

wangxiaohu · Post by **wangxiaohu** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:27 pm

Celtis wrote:I guess it's just because it's easy to take screen shots from Gimp

Oh, I didn't know that. That makes more sense. I use the "Take Screenshot" feature comes with GNOME instead.

Stu L Tissimus · Post by **Stu L Tissimus** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:57 pm

Diabx0r, that was quite uncalled for...

diabx0r · Post by **diabx0r** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:04 pm

Stu L Tissimus wrote:Diabx0r, that was quite uncalled for...

And I reiterate...

I apologize.

/me huggles everyone

aethyr · Post by **aethyr** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:14 pm

wangxiaohu wrote:
Celtis wrote:I guess it's just because it's easy to take screen shots from Gimp :)
Oh, I didn't know that. That makes more sense. I use the "Take Screenshot" feature comes with GNOME instead.

Gimp has the advantage of being able to delay your shot for x number of seconds, thereby setting up certain shots (like menu dropdowns). Of course one could always use "sleep x && import -window root screenshot.png".

astika · Post by **astika** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:33 pm

wangxiaohu wrote:
Celtis wrote:I guess it's just because it's easy to take screen shots from Gimp
Oh, I didn't know that. That makes more sense. I use the "Take Screenshot" feature comes with GNOME instead.

now see, i don't use Gnome.

but seeing as i edit pictures quite frequently, in GIMP mind you, it makes sense to have it open, and thus use its screenshot feature as well.

gmichels · Post by **gmichels** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:06 pm

aethyr wrote:Gimp has the advantage of being able to delay your shot for x number of seconds, thereby setting up certain shots (like menu dropdowns). Of course one could always use "sleep x && import -window root screenshot.png".

ksnapshot

SalsaDoom · Post by **SalsaDoom** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:30 pm

Screenshots? Pfah!!

I just draw a renditiion of my desktop with ascii characters

http://contact.3utilities.com/sd/snap1.jpg

pHEAR it -- my desktop rules. I think Gimp sucks, its UI is *horrible*

And it should be plainly obvious at this point that I am a UI expert.

--SD[/img]

dvc5 · Post by **dvc5** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:34 pm

SalsaDoom wrote:Screenshots? Pfah!!

I just draw a renditiion of my desktop with ascii characters

http://contact.3utilities.com/sd/snap1.jpg

pHEAR it -- my desktop rules. I think Gimp sucks, its UI is *horrible*
And it should be plainly obvious at this point that I am a UI expert.

--SD[/img]

Haha, nice!

eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:10 pm

gimp is like photoshop on steroids

dvc5 · Post by **dvc5** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:16 pm

I think gimp is great and all, but I would enjoy using it better if it had a single-windowed GUI as opposed to 4 different windows. Is this already possible? If so, please mind my stupidity.

eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:29 pm

what the hell is your avatar it looks like a lizard scratching his ass

dvc5 · Post by **dvc5** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:37 pm

It's lou-dog. I'm a huge Sublime fan. I guess I've seen it too much to realize that it isn't very recognizable as a dog to the untrained eye.

superjaded · Post by **superjaded** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:40 pm

lozdvc5 wrote:I think gimp is great and all, but I would enjoy using it better if it had a single-windowed GUI as opposed to 4 different windows. Is this already possible? If so, please mind my stupidity.

MDI goes against the GNOME HIG and I don't think the GIMP people like it any better, so no.
And FWIW, the Mac version of Photoshop uses a SDI interface rather than MDI.

You can emulate, in a sense, a MDI interface by dedicating a virtual window to it, seeing as most WMs separate taskbar lists to each WM.

dvc5 · Post by **dvc5** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:44 pm

Thanks for the tip.

DarrenM · Post by **DarrenM** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:23 pm

Have you tried 2.0? It's much improved in this regard. You can have tabs in the one window for things like tool options, layers, brushes etc and you can dock it onto the main tool pallete window so you basically have 2 windows. One for the image and one for everything else. Much better.

dvc5 · Post by **dvc5** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:30 pm

I have not, but now that you mention it...

eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:41 pm

I still don't see a dog. Maybe it's cuz my resolution is too high http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=147102

dvc5 · Post by **dvc5** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:52 pm

Haha, I'll give you a hint: The head is what you see on the right, moving from bottom to top. The light is shining on him from the left.

eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:00 am

now i sorta see it but it looks like its melting and sumthing is on top of it