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Bonjour,
A traduction (approximate, thank you http://babel.altavista.com/tr) of an
article you can read in the web site http://macosx.be
(http://macosx.be/unix/mythegimp/mythegimp.html)
When a O.S. is not perfect, the only way to sell is to devaluate the other
O.S.
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The MacGimp Myth
Many electronic mails require of us why we do not speak about
MacGimp and The Gimp in general. The MacGimp.org site even wonders, without
laughing, why Steve Jobs did not speak
about them at the time of the keynote of New York .
At the request of many readers, here our opinion on what became a true myth:
The Gimp, program good than Photoshop, which goes to kill
Photoshop, which is free, which is fabulous, fast and pass we from
there...
The Gimp, general information.
We have in the past have the occasion to test Gimp under
Linux.
This program is in Photoshop what Pascal Obispo is to Michel
Polnareff. In other words, this program is pale and insipid copy
carried out with goes-quickly during their spare time by a composite
team beyond the world and holding account in no manner of the needs of
the professional graphic designers.
Show The Gimp with a professional graphic designer and
macosx.be, such Mrs Irma, predicts the future to you: your graphic
designer-guinea-pig will look at the screen roughly 2 minutes 30
seconds, of an air initially astonished, then amazed. Some tears will
start to bead under its eyes while its zygomatic muscles will warm up
for the great burst of laughter final, the 2 minutes 30 last.
Some amusing details:
- No support of the CMJN;
- an interface as intuitive as the manner of making start the
2CV of my friend Marc;
- NO support for the plug-ins, except those created for The
Gimp (of the effects of lenses or extraterrestrized letterings, you
will see some on the images carried out with The Gimp, one would
believe yourselves returned in 1994);
- ceaseless not-plantings (The Gimp is perfect and thus does
not plant: it simply points out to you that you should reprogram
yourself such functionality, which is experimental, but functioning
sometimes). In short, the program chooses itself which tools you can
use and at which time.
- Support of the XWindow fonts and not of the native fonts of
Mac (must we specify that they are hideous?)
Graphic applications requiring a XWindow server.
The server XWindow (of which more répendu is the server
XFree86 4.0.x) does not have quite simply its place in Mac OS X the
fact that Mac OS X is a Unix is undoubtedly a pledge of quality, but
Mac OS X is much more than one Unix among the others: Quartz and Aqua
coupled with the composite interface Mac/NeXT come to fill an obvious
lack in all the Unix, namely a powerful display system and a studied
and unified graphic interface.
The display system XWindow (and not X-Windows, as it is too
often read) is heavy and painful legacy of the past, passed by which
the " server " of display was often on another machine that the "
customer " who displayed on the screen what the server communicated
him. All celà was done via TCP/IP.
Today, the server and the customer are in 99 % of the cases
(99,99 % on Mac) on the same machine. **time-out** this layer server
be thus become completely superfluous and, not satisfy to slow down
the display, for some reason obvious of error architectural, prevent
in addition to de carry out number of effect of display current (a
simple antialiasing be a nightmare), which be sometimes reach thanks
to some artifice return possible grace by the fact that the customer
and the server be physically on the same machine -- and of course sûr
function not if the machine customer must indeed be distant some
machine maidservant.
The myth of the magic bearing of the Unix applications
towards Mac OS X.
The converted users of Unix (and often of Linux), must
understand that it is not while trying to re-use their unchanged tools
under Mac OS X that they will arrive at something, but by rewriting
the parts depending on the XWindow system or APIs rising from XWindow
(API = Application Programming Interface or system of interfacing for the
programming of applications ) in
Cocoa, like made Eric Peyon for the Fire application).
In addition, to implement GTK+ or QT (two API comparable with
Cocoa, but very random as for their evolution, with their operation
and their unification: no the guidelines here) under Mac OS X is also
a coarse fundamental error: a pledge of serious is that one and only
one API are used for all the programs within a same operating system.
Those among you who seek a real alternative to Photoshop,
less expensive and already available under OS X and which more is
compatible with its plug-ins, would make well throw a glance with
Painter .
A last word, exceptionally in my proper name: I hesitated a
long time before writing this opinion in this Unix heading. It is
indeed flamer and even appears pretentious for the Unix/Linux
community. The questions about The Gimp having become numerous, I
based myself on the answer to the most relevant question which we
received to write an article. However, we wanted to create an
informative site and we will thus give information such as they appear
to us most relevant for the daily users of Mac OS X.
But I will not dare any more to leave at home without a
waistcoat avoid-penguins...
--
Alain Barthélemy
bartydeux@gminformatique.com
http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com
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