Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 02:27, Paul Johnson wrote:
> It's not totally unreasonable in a Mac environment, but it's entirely
> proposterous in Unix. Why? Very rarely do you find a window manager
> that isn't capable of focus-follows-mouse and auto-raise. Plus, even
> in Windows and MacOS, in The GIMP, this assumption is bogus, since the
> GIMP was designed to be as light as possible on screen real estate (as
> opposed to photoshop wich is considerably less useful unless
> maximized). As soon as you switch to the main window, you're no
> longer looking at any of the images you may have open as far as the
> window manager's concerned.
Good points, well taken.
> Did you keep the shiny Apple hardware, or are you running i386 now?
i386, almost exclusively. The Macs are still around, but they're getting
kind of dusty. I have a small business trapped in QuickBooks, and I've
yet to see a replacement for BBEdit.
--
Glenn English
ghe@slsware.com
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