Gimp Gimped on OSX?

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Having moved to OSX recently, my windows licensed copy of CS4 isn't getting much of a look in and I do not want to set up parallels/dual boot at this time.

Why is Gimp, when one is used to the technical marvel of photoshop, so very very frustrating. Do they deliberately put this program together to be annoying?

Main problems i am having at the moment (Working on OSX)
  1. The obstinant preservation of the menu bar in the main window, going directly against OSX design principles. Get it out of there!
  2. Because the palette box is a floating window and has separate focus, changing the current tool requires two clicks, one to give the window focus, and the other to select the tool. The same is true for the other floating windows. I have no doubt this is because 'pros use hotkeys' but to hell with that, i like clicking.

Are there any ways to fix these two simple, but incredibly annoying issues?
 
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1. GIMP uses X11 so afaik theres nothing can be done (well short of porting it over to cocoa anyway).

2. The beta version of GIMP (2.7.x iirc) has the option for integrating everything into a single window.

The thing i've found with GIMP is that its awesome on linux, pretty good on windows and absolutely terrible on osx. Have you tried something else like pixelmator?
 
ng93 said:
1. GIMP uses X11 so afaik theres nothing can be done (well short of porting it over to cocoa anyway).

2. The beta version of GIMP (2.7.x iirc) has the option for integrating everything into a single window.

The thing i've found with GIMP is that its awesome on linux, pretty good on windows and absolutely terrible on osx. Have you tried something else like pixelmator?
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Mainly know about gimp as a hang over from one lecturer who was pretty 'OpenSource, Micro$oft are evil, rabble rabble rabble' :) Will check out pixelmator, thank you.
 
Your licence should cover the OSX version, as when we buy Adobe apps from work we get a serial for the mac and pc version.
 
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