deprecated ports

Michal Varga varga.michal at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 05:17:22 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 07:40 +0300, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:

> gimpshop is pretty old and development seems stalled. The next gimp release will 
> have gimpshop-like UI by default so i think it worth deprecating.

That's almost too optimistic thing to say at the moment, as GIMP's
single window interface has been in talks, like, since when, early 2009?

Instead, we got this:
http://libregraphicsworld.org/news.php?readmore=667

While I agree that that gimpshop itself is pretty rotten, there's no
viable alternative for people willing (needing?) to use it, so backing
up its deprecation with the planned (*cough*) release of GIMP 2.8
probably isn't the very best possible course in this case... At this
time, there isn't even a specific release date in plans for 2.8 and even
if that eventually happens, many people [citation needed] doubt that the
single-UI will actually make it there (as, currently, there's not even a
spec finalized for it). Just saying.

m.

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Michal Varga,
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