Fair enough. Ok here is the most important stuff, sorted by program category. Photoshop 5 This is a standard in forms of UI. What sequences of movements are

Fair enough. Ok here is the most important stuff, sorted by program category. Photoshop 5 This is a standard in forms of UI. What sequences of movements are necessary to get results. Like DJing or vim. The Gimp is absolutely horrible in that regard and completely ignores what the absolute majority of professional graphic designers are used to. Font handling under X in general is pretty weak. Color management has to work. Vector Grafx Inkscape is pretty good. But in some ways not good enough. It crashes to often with heavier files. But ok. I actually use it but would like to have Freehand back, UI again. Inkscape would be nice as native Mac App, yes, for UI reasons. UI is pretty important because it drives workflow, speed, productivity. Quark 3 Was a classic. Everything about it was done right. Again, main thing the UI. Font inspector. Main window resizing. How to create new pages, how to link Texts. It was dam fast, with hundreds of pages open and links to database full of graphics. Doing a magazine in real production time with any of the OSS alternatives? Bad idea.