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I didn't know GIMP nowadays run natively (without X11) on macOS, cool.

by Yaggo 10y ago

babuskov 10y ago
It works really well, I have been using it for about 2 years. The only two minor problems I found so far: 1. when you start it up from launcher, it doesn't show up in the foreground, so you have to click the icon again 2. if you have multiple monitors and you plug out the monitor with the gimp window it sometimes crashes. It doesn't happen every time, but as I precaution I first move the Gimp window to the other monitor before disconnecting.
- Yaggo 10y ago
  Also it does not seem to support retina mode, making it practically useless for a big share of Mac users. Besides, Pixelmator has raised the bar really high.
  - Yaggo 10y ago
    Just out of curiosity, why downvote? I can assure you that non-retina graphics on retina display looks awful. In spreadsheet software the lack of retina support may not be a dealbreaker, but GIMP is software for creating graphics.
  - intoverflow2 10y ago
    Gonna have to agree with this, very few Mac users are going to use your application (assuming they have other options) if it looks blocky next to all their other apps. This goes for absolutely everything but especially so for creative tools. 2X displays might seem frivolous to non-Mac developers but they've been the norm on OS X for several years now.
  - tornadoboy55 10y ago
    Yeah, for me personally Pixelmator is even better than Photoshop because (besides not having an astronomical price if you don't want a subscription) they have figured out the perfect sweetspot between too much and too few features (for a prosumer).
    - h1d 10y ago
      Biggest reason I stick to macOS. Free = not enough, paid = expensive and bloated Getting tired of this rule when macOS has apps on the sweet spot at affordable prices.
  - h1d 10y ago
    And lately Affinity Photo which is directly trying to compete against Photoshop.
- stuaxo 10y ago
  It's worth reporting these as bugs.
- prokoudine 10y ago
  We'd appreciate respective bug reports, thanks :)

I didn't know GIMP nowadays run natively (without X11) on macOS, cool.

by Yaggo 10y ago

I didn't know GIMP nowadays run natively (without X11) on macOS, cool.

It works really well, I have been using it for about 2 years. The only two minor problems I found so far: 1. when you start it up from launcher, it doesn't show up in the foreground, so you have to click the icon again 2. if you have multiple monitors and you plug out the monitor with the gimp window it sometimes crashes. It doesn't happen every time, but as I precaution I first move the Gimp window to the other monitor before disconnecting.

Yaggo 10y ago
Also it does not seem to support retina mode, making it practically useless for a big share of Mac users. Besides, Pixelmator has raised the bar really high.
- Yaggo 10y ago
  Just out of curiosity, why downvote? I can assure you that non-retina graphics on retina display looks awful. In spreadsheet software the lack of retina support may not be a dealbreaker, but GIMP is software for creating graphics.
- intoverflow2 10y ago
  Gonna have to agree with this, very few Mac users are going to use your application (assuming they have other options) if it looks blocky next to all their other apps. This goes for absolutely everything but especially so for creative tools. 2X displays might seem frivolous to non-Mac developers but they've been the norm on OS X for several years now.
- tornadoboy55 10y ago
  Yeah, for me personally Pixelmator is even better than Photoshop because (besides not having an astronomical price if you don't want a subscription) they have figured out the perfect sweetspot between too much and too few features (for a prosumer).
  - h1d 10y ago
    Biggest reason I stick to macOS. Free = not enough, paid = expensive and bloated Getting tired of this rule when macOS has apps on the sweet spot at affordable prices.
- h1d 10y ago
  And lately Affinity Photo which is directly trying to compete against Photoshop.
stuaxo 10y ago
It's worth reporting these as bugs.
prokoudine 10y ago
We'd appreciate respective bug reports, thanks :)