[CREATE] LGM 2010 Website

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009 08:33:26 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> > 100% agreed, although better integration between different applications
> > is certainly not a bad idea. Hence the idea of a specialised and neatly
> > integrated Linux distro.
>
> Just how many more Ubuntu Studio, 64 Studio and AGNULAs do we *really*
> need? :)

What we need is a distro created by people who know what they are doing, not 
attempts by people who don't!

>
> No, no and no. Integration between apps = transparent support for file
> formats.
>
> Does Scribus import SVG flawlessly? 

No, and you know why.

> Can GIMP render SVG so that all 
> shapes and SVG filters are editable? 

Same as above.

> Can you save a multilayered ORA 
> with clipping paths fron GIMP and manage layers/paths in Scribus (like
> you can with TIFF and PSD)?

Since when is ORA even close to being a finished spec?

>
> Pick any pro user who does complete packages for companies (from
> web-site to TV promos) and he'll tell you how easily you can pass data
> between Ai, Ps, Fl and Ae. Yet another distro won't get us there and
> there are people already who do "creative" distributions already,
> based on Debian, Fedora, Slackware and whatnot.

See above. And btw.: How easy is it to use a program that's not part of a 
certain vendor's portfolio, but actually more suited to the task in a 
workflow?

I agree with you in that "[y]et another distro won't get us there," but else 
you seem to be advocating an authoritarian approach. It won't happen, no 
matter how often you claim superior knowledge -- sorry for this, but your 
arrogant tone almost asked for a retaliation ;P

Moreover, I'd be glad if you were more careful with statements like "Pick any 
pro user." Like it or not, there are millions of professionals out there who 
use a mix of different applications and vendors to get their work done.

>
> > While the latter is true, the former isn't, at least IMHO, and it's not
> > just look'n' feel. Just look at the different file dialogs in, say,
> > FontForge, a GTK+ app, a KDE app and a Qt app.
>
> Please stop using 199x distros :) Modern Qt4 apps can use Gtk+ file
> dialogs just fine when launched in GNOME 

Since you are aware of of my (strictly personal) distaste for Gnome, I won't 
comment any further, except that we seemed to agree at some point that the 
Gnome/GTK+ file dialogs are a PITA ;P

Christoph