Sorry, but I don’t think neither hope that this project will get you a single customer anymore. Someone who fails so blatantly in almost every respect of project management and communication does not deserve having customers.

That does not answer my question ^^;

i bet you are not even a customer.
so what’s with the complaining?

Actually, I bought Pixel to use it under ZETA and now under Haiku, but well, I will use it also under Linux, Windows and MAC OS X (There will be a PPC version)

Finally… we’ll see the 1.0 version?

You see, it’s not so much the fact that it is ‘postponed’ again and again that inspires me to write these comments. It’s rather the psychological phaenomenon behind it.

Absolutely no offense intended, but I assume that Pavel is alcoholic or does have some other grave personal problem (which the foreposter in this thread suggests *I* am having ). No-one commits the same blatant (and easily avoidable) error again and again for years.

The author can also feel lucky that he appearently doesn’t have that many “real” customers. Because from what I read here, many Pixel users are not working in commercial situations, but for PURE hobbyism. How else can someone be using some obscure hobbyist OSes like “Zeta” and “Haiku”, whatever that is?

Most of the Pixel users are appearently the typical stereotype “Everything is good ™ open-source evangelists” and don’t have pressure or problems at hand to solve with Pixel, so, they don’t get offended by these false promises because their availability of food doesn’t depend on Pixel.

And let’s face it: ANY of his users would already have shelled out $90 for Paint Shop Pro YEARS ago, and have all problems solved and a reliable, stable (ableit sluggish) photo editor with a reliable release cycle.

Thanks for listening

PIxel32 is now Pixel Studio Pro!
heres the official site
http://pixelstudiopro.com/
i hope we have it like an update! and no need new purchause,,,,

Ah, so now screenshots have been replaced by splash screens as teasers?

I cant wait. Count me in

Coming soon is in my book ‘Within a couple of weeks’. Not two months later…

@Pavel Kanzelsberger: Any news yet?

People here have a problem. There’s a zillion really usable image editors for around $90, and they keep sitting here like little dogs awaiting their master for food. Ridiculous

Marko: Yes, Linux is a problem – I obviously agree on your opinion concerning Gimp.

If you’re stuck on Linux: Windows XP Home is around $50, and well… you can run it inside VMWare (another $100 or so) if you wish

Marko: I once was a Linux “freak”, too… that was when I still had a lot of spare time and didn’t really use the computer to try to earn money Since those days are gone, I “just” need stuff to work and that’s where Linux doesn’t exactly excel at At least not on the Desktop. Now servers is a different story, I still have no single Windows server.

Didn’t hear anything, no, but does anyone still really think that this program will once be released, now after the really-really-really-last-everlast-ever-everlast deadline has also been missed by 4 months?

Any news, Pavel?

@Marko: And a good native audio production environment. And drivers for the hardware needed in that situation (Multiport MIDI interfaces, Low-latency multiport DSP parts etc.). And a good native Video production environment (think Sony Vegas Pro). And, and, and…

P.D.: A few suggestions about the new title graphic on http://www.pixelstudiopro.com:

- The shadow on the left is cut off (calibrate your monitor! )
- There’s severe aliasing in the perspective-distorted image; not good product publicity if you ask me (“Has this been created using this software??”)
- The word “Linux” in the “Bang” is not centered correctly.

All that may not be a big deal, but for promoting a new soon-to-come graphics program, supposedly under the hood of a bigger company, such errors are severe.

@Alexander: well, you might indeed need something like a Mac or even Windows. Those systems are hard to build in a open source driven environment. I agree that many linux software you look for is not on par (yet). For Audio, I use Audacity, but also other production systems are being build, like Ardour. Don’t know enough to judge them thought. Video, true, not too many stable and well featured software. Cinceralla seems stable enough, but still lacks features. Anyway, I don’t need those features, so I Linux still works fine for me.

Use cygwin/bash then or the even more powerful Windows Powershell.

The advantage of linux over windows/Mac is not on the Desktop. Linux is FOSS, that’s the advantage. In some areas there might be also technical advantages. In user experience there are also some examples like fontmatrix for example, but that works on windows/Mac also.

Well, it would be a pity if Pixel was an abandonware. I would not say that it is unusable or unstable. Fast and really works, even if it is uncomplete. However, many published software in the Linux world is far from complete (version 0.X, F-Spot, last year Wine, etc), the problem is that they are free as in beer. But the few euros may be spent for more useless things, too. Consider as if it is tech stocks, you pay now 39€ then the value may be 90
It would be really strange if Pavel abandoned this project, having put a lot of effort in it, clearly.

Back to the… past? I hope you haven’t reverted your Pixel development along with DB content.

Pavel, please tell us what’s going on, especially w.r.t. current status of Pixel image editor. TIA.

Regards.

@Pavel,

Seriously… ? Pavel, what’s seriously stopping you from releasing another beta version just to satisfy your paying customers now? Your paying customers who are paying for Beta versions and are willing to use them, as well as some contribute back? You claim you’re waiting to release a useable version… compared to the unusable one you already have? Just release another bloody version for fsck sake it’s been years now! ITS BETA! Beta is supposed to be buggy… at least we’ll have a buggy version than an unusable one!

Heck I remember there are extremely simple bugs (and other crashes) I filed years ago back when you had the forum and bug tracker, things that would have taken minutes to fix, and yet to this day I still see them! What’s wrong with getting build 740, fixing one or two.. JUST ONE OR TWO small bugs, and releasing 741, just to prove that you actually care for your customers ?

I hope you fail.. I really do.. and I hope there’s a way to sue you and your company, to show an example to the rest of the frauds out there. To think many of us actually contributed and helped years ago….