Re: [Hampshire] GIMP dropped from Ubuntu 10.04

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Author: Andy Smith
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] GIMP dropped from Ubuntu 10.04

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Hello,

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:36:06PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:06:54PM +0000, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
> > According to http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/gimp-to-be-removed-lucid.html
> > GIMP won't be dropped entirely (that would be totally stupid) it's just not
> > being installed by default. F-Spot will be installed by default.
>
>    That makes perfect sense to me. I can't imagine the vast majority
> of people wanting much beyond rotating, scaling, cropping and
> tagging/indexing of the images. (And that's pushing it...)


Agreed, it makes perfect sense to me.

Cheers,
Andy

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