[Openicc] Color management in gimp - not really

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 03.04.05, 22:07 +0200 schrieb Craig Bradney:

> Whos dream is that? Gimp is one of the programs Scribus relies on (as theres 

Isn't this a configureable option in Scribus to select an external editor?

> no PS etc on Linux). Gimp has the user basem and many of them need it 
to move 
> into this domain.

Colour professionals went to CinePaint (our booth) and web designers and 
of course many hobbyists to GIMP.

A anecdote with GIMP development is, the team took a toolkit version 
change (gtk1 -> gtk2) to do the havily critizised major number change for 
GIMP-2.0 .
It was long promised that this special version change remains reserved 
for GEGL integration. (GEGL was decided to support selectable bit depths 
and colour spaces but will not been finished soon.) 
The new gtk2 look and feel , with 8-bit TGB core, can indeed be important 
for a web editor.

Hal states here possibilities for GIMP, which are very contrary to my own 
discouraging experiences with GIMP development.

regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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