Slightly OT: Photoshop tops 'most wanted' Linux app list

[Brian Mury]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:33 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 21:52 +0200, peter kostov wrote:
> > I'm disappointed too. With The Gimp I believe man can achieve more than
> > 90% of that what Photoshop does. And the average Photoshop user doesn't
> > use even 10% of the functionality of Photoshop...
> ----
> that sort of misses the point of feature glut - it doesn't really have
> anything to do with need or usage...it's the comfort that it is actually
> there.

Some of the functionality that gimp is missing doesn't qualify as
"feature glut" - they are features that are needed by a lot of users.
For example, the lack of support for 16 bit colour and colour
management, severely limits its usefulness to photographers.

Fortunately these features are being worked on... :-)