Re: [Gimp-developer] Is Tito worth merging? What should be done with it?

[Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>]

On 05/01/2012 05:58 PM, gespertino gmail com wrote:
> Oh, forgot to mention but it's important:
> Ubuntu just released 12.04 with a new feature: HUD. It basically does
> the same than TITO, but globally, with almost every application (GIMP
> included).
> There's a risk of TITO becoming obsolete if distributions follow the
> same path and implement a global menu search tool.
> I guess that's something to be considered too. If GIMP includes TITO
> and next year all the major linux distributions have something like
> Ubuntu's HUD, then we'll have something redundant that uses resources
> and increase the size of the application with no benefit at all.

According to Sourceforge, 71-73% of the people that get my Gimp python 
plugins are using Windows (I get these very similar figures on three 
differents SF projects). The best Linux ratio is 25%. And since it's 
python, the figure is biased towards Linux. These users can't depend on HUD.