Re: [dev] portable photoshop-like lite application based on C?

From: patrick295767 patrick295767 <patrick295767_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 10:23:02 +0100

"You're running gimp from a USB stick? Why is that? Or are you
running it on some horrible shared Windows terminal thing?"

Sure. When I am using Windows, I need sometimes to use Linux without
touching anything. So I run Debian from the USB stick. It must remain
very light and fast. Compared to a Live cdrom, I appreciate that it
remains, always, pretty lightweight. Since I installed it myself, I
control its content. I have a distro of about 800 Mbytes with X and
useful framebuffer programs, such as a light pdfviewer.
I haven't python for instance ;) What for? it is slow. Nothing faster
than C coded apps.

2013/12/2 Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk>:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 05:54:11PM +0100, patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote:
>> Gimp on Linux is rather ok, but on Linux, the portable version and the
>> 2.8.10 are very slow, which limits drastically the use.
>>
>> On an usb installation, gimp might be quite slow, unfortunately.
>
> You're running gimp from a USB stick? Why is that? Or are you
> running it on some horrible shared Windows terminal thing?
>
> I actually like gimp quite a bit. It works really well, and given
> the flexibility it has it doesn't have too excessive dependencies
> (most of those listed from your screenshot are just dependencies of
> gtk). Obviously it's far from perfect, and could suck less, but I
> really doubt it would be easy to code up something like that, that
> still worked well.
>
> There are other simpler free image editors out there, depending on
> what you need, mtPaint being the one I can remember off my head.
>
> As others have mentioned, imagemagick can do amazing things, but for
> a lot of usecases it's a pretty slow and difficult way of working.
>
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