Re: [gtk-list] Re: Windows NT port of GTK+

[Orlando Andico <orly mozcom com>]

On Fri, 1 May 1998, fractture wrote:

..
> > imagine for a moment that i'm a photoshop diehard. i use my school to buy
> > all of adobe's products at discount prices. i know it all. then i load up
> > this "Gimp" thing.. they say it's free, so what the heck. wait a second..
> > i get this one little window.. what do i do with it? ok, i figured out how
> > to open an image.. i found the right-click menu.. it seems interesting so
> > far.. i try the tools, i try some plugins.. man, this thing is SLOW! so
> > much for crapware, er, i mean freeware. i'll stick to the PROFESSIONAL
> > program.
> 
>   Yikes!!  The Gimp slow?!?!?!  I never noticed this problem before.

On 16MB it is. Photoshop 4.0 runs moderately well on 16MB. When I upgraded
my machine to 48MB, they're roughly the same speed.


Cheers,
Orly