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Well in Gimp 2.6 and in the 2.5 release, they merged the toolbar into the image section.
And are gonna make it all in one window.
My wife has CS2 and a Mac, it looks just like GIMP, with the different windows.
As for FOSS programs:
It all depends on what you want to do as far as what program you want to use. Last week I just made mock-ups of changes I wanted to do for a web site on GIMP. Then for another business I had to make some mailing fliers so I tried Inkscape, for the first time I might add. It took a minute to see where everything was, but in a few hours I made 2 different fliers. It was much faster and easier than using GIMP, which I normally swear by. It had pictures and a map, I just put them where they needed to go, they came edited.
Photos: UFRaw, GIMP
Everything else: GIMP, Incscape
If the only reason you think your software is better is because it's FOSS, you need to write better software
I tried to install paint.net under wine - with fingers crossed but it came back failed. It won't run as wine doesn't emulate well enough and paint.net cant run... sad but true.
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To T2Manner : In m.h.o. Gimp is and stays the best open source image editor/creator. Searching for a real open source alternative for the open source alternative of photoshop is in my opinion a waist of time.
Try it out, get used to it, and start designing, would be my advise, unless of course, you are not a designer, but a developer trying to find out what tools are around.
I find that setting the Gimp toolbox to be always on top (somewhere in the gimp preferences) and using a maximised image window is a pretty good way to work with the Gimp. It's almost like having an MDI (aka photshop) type interface.
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