I've used Photo Paint 9 for a few hours now, and I remain impressed. It has a few bugs, mainly with the Winelib stuff. Screen redraws don't happen correctly on the odd occasion, I find that hitting buttons sometimes don't work until you hit them a second time, and so on. I don't like the Windows style mouse pointers it uses (couldn't they just change the XPMs to normal X ones?), and it doesn't get on with Sawfish at all well. The point is that the application works (it's never crashed or lost me any work), and we now have the power of PP9 on Linux. This is a really good thing. I'm still concerned they've dived in too quickly. The quirky bugs are acceptable in a free download, but I'm not sure about paying serious money for them. I want Draw9 and I really want Ventura Publisher, but I'll be annoyed if those commercial products aren't properly polished. Winelib needs a few more months. I just hope Corel will be around long enough to reap the benefits of their investments.
First, it took me forever to get PP9 to download! I tried all day the day it showed up and it was major slow or would time out.
It was well worth the aggravation. I am running it on a P200MMX w/128MB. The thing works great. I was really impressed when I went to install it. Was expecting the typical CL install - instead I got a really nice GUI. When it loaded for the first time I had zero problem running it and in the week since installing I have had zero problems.
Tis nice to finally run PP9 on an environment you don't have to reboot every 30 seconds.
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