The Ubuntu developers plan to remove GIMP from 10.04. The idea is the brain child of Rick Spencer – former employee at Microsoft. The article I read cites that it is much too powerful for the average user and replicates features covered by F-Spot. It was bad enough when Mono apps started getting invented to replace GTK ones. Now we have one which has gained so many features it has bloated itself into another category pushing out the GIMP (for nonsense reasons).
If space saving was the real issue, why not remove the bloated F-Spot in favour of gThumb like Fedora? While we’re reviewing changes to reduce space we can also take out Tomboy (not too useful on LiveCD anyways). At this point you would no longer require Mono and that could also be taken off the LiveCD. The stuff is in the repositories for the user to install anyways. They could even put “Install F-Spot, Install Tomboy” into the menus much how Kubuntu handles Firefox installation.
The logic behind this is sound. Desktop users just do not need something as powerful as The GIMP. It takes up space, it’s not widely used outside of designers and a simpler “paint” type programme would better serve the features it provides that don’t overlap with F-Spot.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/gimp-to-be-removed-lucid.html
Could this “paint” type program he is refering to already exist as Paint.mono? Ported by Miguel De Icaza himself ?
considering that Photoshop eats up something like 1 gig of hard drive space, GIMP is a gnat…
team mono just isn’t going to stop until until it is nothing but mono floating on top of the linux kernel…
why can’t they roll up their own “Redmond Distro” and not corrupt Ubuntu and Gnome to death with this garbage?
answer : their agenda is the end of free software as we understand it, they are even calling this bastardization of Free Software with proprietary guts by the meaningless term “open core” now!
[...] in June we warned that a Canonical employee who had come from Microsoft wanted to remove the GIMP. Reason? Because a simplistic Mono application was seen as a “good [...]