Comment 6 for bug 599785

I would say that is a good idea but to perhaps avoid technical terms? Those
that need Something like "GIMP is an image manipulation program that has
been designed to be extensible to accomplish just about anything. Draw,
paint, edit images, and much more!".

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Andrew <email address hidden> wrote:

> Maybe use some stuff from the GIMP website:
> http://www.gimp.org/about/introduction.htm ie.
>
> GIMP lets you draw, paint, edit images, and much more! GIMP includes the
> functionality and plug-ins of other famous image editing and processing
> programs.
>
> It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an
> expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing
> system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter. Its
> inbuilt scripting interface mean even the most complex of operations are
> possible.
>
> --
> The Gimp's description is too confusing
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599785
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> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Triaged
> Status in “gimp” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gimp
>
> Here's The Gimp description in the software center:
>
> "GIMP lets you draw, paint, edit images, and much more! GIMP includes the
> functionality and plug-ins of other famous image editing and processing
> programs.
>
> If you'd like to be able to open files remotely (like over HTTP or FTP),
> install the gvfs-backends package.
>
> If you'd like to use a MIDI device as an input controller in GIMP, install
> libasound2 and read the how-to at /usr/share/doc/gimp/README.MIDI
>
> If you'd like to be able to read and write PostScript files from GIMP,
> install the ghostscript package."
>
> As you can see, the majority of the text is geeky.
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