Very Computer

Wow, I've given KIllustrator[1] a cursory glance: colour me impressed!
I got the latest version of KIllustrator and compiled it without any
KOffice support (since I don't have KOffice libs and my KDE libs were
compiled without --enable-new-stuff).  It sure took a long time to
compile but it was worth it (they now have packages, dammit).

KIllustrator lets me draw shapes and curves, move them, rotate/shear
them (nifty!  click in the selected shape to get the rotation/shear
arrows), insert and manipulate pictures (GIFs), cut and paste them,
and much more...  I sure wish I had had this to show my Dad the last
time I was in Mauritius... (I think we settled on Microsoft
Draw/Publisher)

KIllustrator isn't even all that bloated, like I expected.  It took a
few seconds to launch on my fully bogged system and is responsive.

Interesting trivia, I copied an inserted GIF to the clipboard then
tried to paste it into XEmacs, the results;

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<doc mime="application/x-killustrator" >
<pixmap matrix="1 0 0 0 1 0 23 90 1" strokecolor="0 0 0" strokestyle="1" linewidth="1" fillstyle="0" src="file:/home/navindra/pics/misc/f-you.gif" width="575" height="80" />
</doc>

Not bad...  (the f-you.gif is from the see-figure-1[2] gag)

-N.

[1] http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~sattler/killustrator.html
[2] http://spiffy.cso.uiuc.edu/~kline/Stuff/see-figure-1.html
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Are you a Mauritian? I'm asking because I'm *ON* the island. And a
happy Linux user, too :)

Eddy

[followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy]

Yeah, I am. :)

Quote:> happy Linux user, too :)

That's great!  Did you have to order Linux CDs from the outside or are
they selling them alongside the pirated Windows software?  Are many
people interested in Linux there?  I take it any interest in Linux is
thanks to the Internet.  I heard there's been Linux ads on MBC though.

Cheers,
Navin.

PS Too bad you have to go through Telecom and can't have proper
   domains.mu.  Apparently they moved bow from Linux to NT too.
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