GimpShop Package Created!

mrjohnston · 2005-04-01 03:14:04

I just found a project where a guy changed the menus and such around in gimp to be as close as possible to those in photoshop. As a former photoshop user who dislikes gimp's interface this was great. So I packaged it and it seems to work. I will play around with it more as people test it, but it worked for me.

Oh! Its on my server so it won't be very fast to get the source but I had to convert it from a mac compression to tar.gz so makepkg didn't get angry.

Package can be downloaded at http://mrjohnston.org/arch/gimpshop-2.2.4-1.pkg.tar.gz

PKGBUILD is available at http://mrjohnston.org/arch/PKGBUILD

Let me know if it works or not. I haven't made many packages so all may not be perfect.

mrjohnston

beniro · 2005-04-01 14:20:59

Hello. Can I install GIMPshop along side my current GIMP install??? I'm really excited to check it out. Thanks for the great work.

mrjohnston · 2005-04-01 15:29:41

Can gimp be installed with gimpshop?

I believe the short answer for now is no. Unless I change the location gimpshop is actually just the entire gimp 2.2.4 that was secondarily modified or patched you may as well figure. So if you install both they will both try to install to the same spot and conflict.

So for now at least its one or the other, depending on which interface you like better. If enough people want it I can try to dump it into opt and change executable names from gimp (like normal) to gimpshop so they might both play together well.

For now I will wait as I don't think...yes thats my perhaps errant opinion, most people will need or want two installs of essentially the same thing. Let me know!

mrjohnston

phrakture · 2005-04-01 16:14:35

so this only changes the menus, correct? I want to get rid of all the random floating windows... I'd like them inside one main window - will this do that, or no?

mrjohnston · 2005-04-01 16:54:37

Hey,

This won't fix the amazing 3 window interface (sarcasm). I will look to see if theres anything else I can do to fix that if there is a patch.

This will just at least emulate the menu structure and naming conventions used by photoshop.

mrjohnston

phrakture · 2005-04-01 18:22:45

mrjohnston wrote:

This will just at least emulate the menu structure and naming conventions used by photoshop.

that's what I thought, but with all the slashdot hype, it was hard top figure out what exactly was going on....

I wonder if someone could create an app which simply reparents the gimp windows into one main application window... hmmm *scratches chin*

dadexter · 2005-04-01 19:22:17

Run gimp within Xnest?

mrjohnston · 2005-04-01 19:31:40

I saw somewhere when I was looking someone talking about using xnest. I'll have to look more into that. Can you run gimp using xnest with a single command?

If thats possible maybe I can just modify the menu link to open gimp within xnest assuming there aren't a lot of negatives to doing so. That would give a truly photoshop feel to it.

If anyone knows if xnest and gimp can be run with one cammand, and what that command is let me know. Otherwise I will look it up and see if I can edit the build to make the gimpshop package better.

mrjohnston

phrakture · 2005-04-01 19:33:03

dadexter wrote:

Run gimp within Xnest?

yeah but then you'd need a WM running in xnest... that'd be kinda cool though....

mrjohnston · 2005-04-01 19:49:49

I am looking into xnest but I am trying to decide if thats worth it. Has someone tried this out a lot to the point its worth the extra resources and work to run it in xnest versus on its own workspace?

For now the only way I can think to do it is to make a script file that runs xnest and a wm and gimp and use that in the menu link. A lot more work and overhead assuming I can manage it.

So I guess for now let me know if this is really something people would want. If enough people do I will go for it. Or maybe I will try it later as see how it works. If it works well I can either have 2 menu entries or maybe do a separate package with only the script file that once installed replaces the menu entry and places the script file where needed.

hmmm...

mrjohnston

dadexter · 2005-04-01 20:26:59

phrakture wrote:

dadexter wrote:
Run gimp within Xnest?
yeah but then you'd need a WM running in xnest... that'd be kinda cool though....

take a very basic WM... make a config file for it so it starts gimpshop...

personally I like the "3 window" design

mrjohnston · 2005-04-01 20:51:26

I don't mind the 3 windows, but it makes it feel more cluttered. So long as I have it on its own workspace its not too bad. I am thinking that'll just be what I keep doing. Keeps things uncluttered and its less work

So long as the menus are what I am used to thats enough for me for now I think. Unless there is some great demand which I haven't seen thus far.

mrjohnston

phrakture · 2005-04-01 20:54:15

yeah... well gimp doesn't play nice with ion, and wmi.... and other wm's like that (ratpoison?) so it gets *very* annoying

mpie · 2005-04-01 20:58:28

what about lwm....

Alucard · 2005-04-01 22:25:38

Despite the odd window layout, it is quite a nice replacement to photoshop

dadexter · 2005-04-01 22:37:31

phrakture wrote:

yeah... well gimp doesn't play nice with ion, and wmi.... and other wm's like that (ratpoison?) so it gets *very* annoying

Good reason not to use them

iphitus · 2005-04-02 03:31:34

Gimp plays fine with ion. just use a wfloatws

shadowhand · 2005-08-09 23:12:11

Anyone have a copy of the PKGBUILD around? Mrjohnston has taken it off his website, along with the actual package.

EDIT: got it.

shadowhand · 2005-08-10 01:08:38

The PKGBUILD has been submitted to the AUR.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … =1&ID=1733

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