Friday, October 01, 2004

Gimp

I'm all for free software and the Open Source movement.

I need a photo editor and I forgot my Photoshop install CD at home.

So I do what any normal geekette would do: download Gimp.

Except this Gimp is in Romanian! And not even real Romanian. Romanglish. Half of it is in Romanian and the other half in English. And I can't even read the help file because it wasn't installed during the installation process.

And why wasn't it installed?

Because everything was in Romanian!

@&^%#&^$#&^%#&^#%&^#%&^#%&

And I googled how to change the language and all I got back were scripting websites.

Hmph.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I understand your nerves, you're right, language support has always been a big problem for opensource and this lack makes the software uncomfortable and not professional.
If you still need that you could use knoppix
http://www.knoppix.org/
This is a liveCD general purpose distro, it contains GIMP and other useful/funny stuff and you don't have to install anything. It _is_ in plain English, no Romanian mixes, no Italian, promise :)

Baci :)

7:32 a.m., October 01, 2004  
Blogger Karla said...

I don't need Knoppix.

I have Knoppix on a CD in my room.

I need a photoeditor to crop one of my pictures (long story).

#(&^$#*&^%$&^%#^&%#

And I'm at work so i'm a little leary of installing anything. If worst comes to worst I'll just install Gimp on my laptop. Then it'll be in English.

7:39 a.m., October 01, 2004  

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