{"id":1421,"date":"2009-01-08T09:33:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2009-01-08T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:33:46","slug":"interesting-developments-in-gimp-on-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/archives\/1421","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Developments in Gimp on OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was looking at the latest from Gimp for OS X<\/a> this morning and I realized that it requires an updated X11 install for OS X. While I might not mind that, I just ordered a new box, and with Snow Leopard on the way it's just not something I'm going to hassle with and put my box in an odd state over.<\/p>\n

So I went back to the GIMP.app<\/a> site which has the native<\/em> port of Gimp for OS X. This is interesting to me because I think that the native<\/em> port beats the X11 one because it fits in better with the rest of the applications on the box. Not that I have anything against<\/em> X11 - it's just that if I had a choice, I'd go native.<\/p>\n

Well... with the move by the Gimp on OS X<\/a> folks to use the non-standard X11, the native port is getting my attention. While it's on 2.6.0 and the other is 2.6.4 (the most recent stable cut), there's a lot that can be done in 2.6.0, and it actually runs on my box without the new X11 libraries.<\/p>\n

I'm wondering if the GIMP.app<\/a> guys have given up, but if that's the case, then the only long-term way to get Gimp on OS X is to use the non-standard X11. Maybe they'll go back to the 'standard' one with Snow Leopard, but if they diverged once, they'll do it again. We'll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

For now, the GIMP.app runs just fine on 10.5.6. I can do all the things I need to do and while that's not much (I use Acorn<\/a> much more these days) it's nice to know it's there if I need it. Also... it's less than half<\/em><\/strong> the size of the X11 port. Wow! that's a big<\/strong> difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was looking at the latest from Gimp for OS X this morning and I realized that it requires an updated X11 install for OS X. While I might not mind that, I just ordered a new box, and with Snow Leopard on the way it’s just not something I’m going to hassle with and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}