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The GNU Image Manipulation Program Version 2.2
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This is version 2.2 of The GIMP. Version 2.2 is an update on GIMP 2.0.
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GIMP 2.2 is fully backward compatible to GIMP 2.0. Plug-ins and
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scripts written for GIMP 2.0 will continue to work and don't need to
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be changed nor recompiled to be used with GIMP 2.2. We do however
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hope that plug-in authors will update their plug-ins for GIMP 2.2 and
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adapt the GUI changes we did with this version.
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Please follow the installation instructions in INSTALL.
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.2.0 (since 2.2-pre2 was released)
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- More work on GFig plug-in.
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- Build fixes for Win32 and IRIX.
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- Added --no-splash command-line option for gimp-remote.
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- More tweaks to the migration of user settings.
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- Improved input controller modules, added ALSA support to the MIDI module.
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- Allow to transform layers with masks.
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- Let the histogram respect the selection.
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- Added gimp_edit_copy_visible as a replacement for the "Copy Visible" script.
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- Improved color dithering routines.
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- Lots of bug fixes and some optimizations.
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Manish Singh, Kevin Cozens,
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Joao S. O. Bueno, Karine Proot, Tim Mooney, Wolfgang Hofer, Simon Budig,
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Bill Skaggs, Øyvind Kolås, Adam D. Moss, Brion Vibber, Maurits Rijk,
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Bill Luhtala, Philip Lafleur
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.2-pre2
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- More work on GFig (still more to come here).
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- Improvements and fixes to the migration of user settings.
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- Final touches to the new PDB APIs.
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- Ported some more item factories to GtkUIManager.
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- Added new PDB function gimp_layer_from_mask().
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- User interface cleanup in IFS Fractal plug-in (former IfsCompose).
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- Allow file plug-ins to provide a way to access an image thumbnail if
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the file format provides one or can be rendered at small sizes.
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- Load and save EXIF thumbnails in JPEG files.
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- Render in small resolution when creating a thumbnail for a
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Postscript or PDF document or from an SVG or WMF image file.
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- Allow to import Photoshop (.act) palette files.
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- Added a Print Size dialog to bring back missing functionality from 2.0.
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- Several improvements to the GIMP Python bindins.
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- Guard the core better against misbehaving scripts and plug-ins.
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- Changed the way that Script-Fu scripts register their menus (in a
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backward compatible way).
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- Added ALSA support for the MIDI controller module.
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- Resurrected the glob plug-in.
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- Lots of bug fixes and some optimizations.
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Manish Singh, Kevin Cozens,
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Joao S. O. Bueno, Geert Jordaens, David Gowers, Øyvind Kolås, Cai Qian,
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Simon Budig, Jakub Steiner, Philip Lafleur, Nickolay V. Shmyrev,
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Karine Proot, S. Mukund, Dave Neary, Keith Goatman
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.2-pre1
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- Added more plug-in previews (Displace, Color To Alpha, Newsprint)
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and ported existing previews to the new widgets (Glass Tiles).
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- Added preview to WMF loader plug-in.
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- Added Retinex plug-in for color normalization.
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- Added plug-in to load and save raw image data (_not_ the raw format
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used by some digital cameras)
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- Added a GUI to configure controller modules.
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- Let lots of core dialogs remember their last values and add
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shortcuts to run with the last values w/o opening the dialog.
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- Added new PDB API for drawable tranformations.
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- Register all libgimp enums to allow language bindings such as
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Script-Fu to access them using GType introspection.
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- Improved how we attach user-visible strings to enums registered with
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the type system. Added API to access these strings to libgimpbase.
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- Cleanups to the new GFig GUI (still work in progress).
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- HIGification of the ImageMap plug-in.
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- Cleaned up dialogs code.
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- Added Auto Whitebalance menu item.
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- Redid Scale and Resize dialogs.
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- Added code to migrate user settings from ~/.gimp-2.0.
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Manish Singh, Kevin Cozens,
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Joao S. O. Bueno, Geert Jordaens, Yeti, Karine Proot, Øyvind Kolås,
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.7
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- Added even more plug-in previews (Value Propagate, Cubism, Colorify)
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and ported existing previews to the new widgets (AlienMap2, FlareFX,
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Jigsaw, NL Filter, Waves, Scatter HSV).
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- More PDB API cleanups.
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- Allow to specify the batch interpreter on the command-line.
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- Improved selection-round script and moved it to the Select menu.
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- Don't switch the active layer when using the Move tool.
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- Updated libgimpthumb to support local thumbnails as introduced by
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version 0.7 of the thumbnail spec.
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- Automatically create thumbnails from the Open dialog.
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- Added entries next to most viewable buttons.
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- Added a bunch of scripts to manipulate guides.
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- Improved confirmation and warning dialogs.
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Manish Singh, Kevin Cozens,
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Alan Horkan, Jakub Steiner
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.6
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- Added more drawable previews (Color Exchange, DOG, Deinterlace,
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Engrave, Oilify, Ripple, Shift).
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- Added new preview widget that shows a scaled view of the full
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drawable. Use it for Apply Lens, Blinds, Channel Mixer, Destripe,
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Emboss, Illusion, Map Color, Max RGB, Plasma, Polar, Solid Noise,
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Supernova, Whirl and Pinch.
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- Added "Open as Layer" functionality to the menus.
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- Implemented the recent-file-spec for shared storage of a list of
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recently used files (really URIs).
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- Cleaned up plug-in procedure handling. Added the possibility to let
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plug-ins and scripts run using a private GimpContext.
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- Added multi-line text entries for Script-Fu and Gimp-Python.
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- Cleaned up PDB API for brushes, gradients, palettes and patterns.
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Deprecated lots of functions and added saner replacements. Added
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gimp-context-* PDB namespace with replacements for some of the
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- Let GimpView handle pixbuf previews. Added a (themable) drop shadow
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to image-file previews.
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- Cleaned up the dbbrowser and plugindetails code and GUI and factored
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out common code. Renamed both executables and menu entries.
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- Made tools cancelable with <Escape>.
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- Dim the outer (to be cropped) area when using the Crop tool.
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- Let GimpDialog add a help button to give easier access to the help pages.
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Maurits Rijk, Dave Neary,
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Manish Singh, Robert Oegren, Kevin Cozens, Kevin Turner, Dov Grobgeld,
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Joao S. O. Bueno, Michael Schumacher, Jonathan Levi, Daniel Egger
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.5
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- Ask the user to save the image when closing the last display.
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- Restored compatibility of the wire protocol that was accidentally
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- Added layer and mask actions to allow to create keybindings for them.
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- Preview widget improvements:
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* let the preview expand with the plug-in dialog
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* added a navigation popup similar to the one in the image window
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* respect the selection and show how it will affect the filter
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* added API to draw to a GimpDrawablePreview from a GimpPixelRgn
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- Added preview to more plug-ins: Cartoon, Apply Canvas, Photocopy,
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- Ported the Bumpmap plug-in preview to GimpDrawablePreview.
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- Removed -u linker hacks from all Makefiles.
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Manish Singh, Simon
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Budig, Nathan Summers, Alan Horkan, David Gowers, Bill Skaggs,
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Joao S. O. Bueno, Peter Kirchgessner
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.4
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- Rewritten internal handling of progress indicators. Embed progress
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bars to the File Open dialog to reduce annoying dialogs popping up.
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- Added an API for plug-ins to embed a progress bar. Let the Script-Fu
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dialog swallow the progress bars created by running the script.
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- Ported remaining plug-ins and modules to GimpPreviewArea and removed
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- Show progress while converting from RGB to Indexed Colors.
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- Added new plug-ins Cartoon, Neon, Photocopy and Softglow.
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- Let color selectors adapt to the given size.
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- Import basic SVG shapes as paths.
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- Improved GIH and guillotine plug-ins.
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- Added GimpMessageBox widget. Collect error messages in a single
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dialog to reduce popups.
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- Renamed the core GimpPreview widget to GimpView.
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- Added a GimpPreview widget to libgimpwidgets. This is an abstract
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class that combines a GimpPreviewArea with scrollbars and a "Preview"
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- Added GimpDrawablePreview derived from GimpPreview.
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- Improved previews in Unsharp Mask, Scatter RGB, Sharpen, Spread and
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- Added previews to Edge, Gaussian Blur, Neon, Soft Glow, Sobel and
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Selective Gaussian Blur.
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- Added a logarithmic mode for the slider in a GimpScaleEntry.
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- Script-Fu code cleanups.
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- Fixed composite assembly code.
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- Pass user settings for the checkerboard to plug-ins.
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- Image comment, if any, is now shown within the info window.
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- New function "Fit Canvas to Layers" (gimp_image_resize_to_layers)
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Shlomi Fish, Bill Skaggs,
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Simon Budig, Ari Pollak, Spencer Kimball, Michael Schumacher, Joao
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S. O. Bueno, Manish Singh, Helvetix Victorinox, Kevin Cozens
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.3
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- Cleanups to the MMX code and the composite subsystem in general
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- Cleanups and fixes to Gimpressionst plug-in (bug #148088)
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- Redone light settings GUI for Lighting plug-in.
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- Added keyboard shortcut editor to preferences dialog (bug #142922)
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- Implemented the callbacks for the various "Clear saved foobar now"
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buttons in the preferences dialog.
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- Added support for loading gradients from SVG files. This allows to
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share gradient definitions with Inkscape and Sodipodi (bug #148127)
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- Added parsers for the various ways to define a color in SVG to
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- Added GimpColorHexEntry widget to libgimpwidgets. It displays colors
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in hexadecimal represention and takes hex and SVG color names as input.
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- Added GimpCellRendererColor and GimpCellRendererToggle to libgimpwidgets.
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- Renamed GimpColor boxed type to GimpRGB and moved it to libgimpcolor.
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- Moved GIMP_TYPE_UNIT and GIMP_TYPE_MEMSIZE to libgimpbase.
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- Fixes to the BMP loader plug-in (bug #143682).
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- Fixes to the Decompose plug-in (bug #147603).
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- Added palette selector widgets to libgimpui.
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- Allow to disable mnemonics in menus (bug #120034).
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- Ported TWAIN plug-in to Mac OS X (bug #147962).
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- Support motion event history as provided by some input device drivers.
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- Let the undo system know more specifically what an undo step
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does. Use that info to keep tools active across modifications to
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the image that don't affect the tool (bug #109561).
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- Changed default config for keyboard controller to allow scrolling
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the display using the cursor keys (#53988).
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- Added GimpPreviewArea widget as replacement for the deprecated
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GtkPreview widget. Ported most plug-ins to the new widget.
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- Added shapes for generated brushes and allow for softer brushes.
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- Allow to specify the aspect ratio in the scale tool.
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- Lots of bug fixes and other goodies. Check the ChangeLog for details.
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, Helvetix Victorinox, Shlomi Fish,
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Bill Skaggs, Brion Vibber, Raphael Quinet, Simon Budig, David Odin,
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Manish Singh, Hans Breuer, Michael Schumacher, Dave Neary
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.2
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- Further improvements to the new input controllers; added a keyboard
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- Show image preview in GFig plug-in, started a complete overhaul.
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- Added Difference of Gaussians edge detection plug-in.
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- Added more possibilities for drag'n'drop:
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* layers dialog accepts URI, color and pattern drops
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* path dialog takes and offers DND of SVG data
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- Implemented PDB function gimp-path-get-point-at-dist.
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- Allow to use the color picker to edit palettes (as in gimp-1.2).
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- Improvements and code cleanup in gimpressionist plug-in.
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- Allow to cut'n'paste image data between GIMP and other applications
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(for example Abiword) using the system clipboard.
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- List unsaved images in Quit dialog.
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- Completed core/gui separation. Optionally build a gimp-console
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application that behaves like 'gimp --no-interface' and doesn't link
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- Deprecated GimpPixmap and ported almost all users to GtkImage.
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- Moved display projection code into a GimpProjection object. This means
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there's finally only a single projection per image.
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- Introduced GimpPickable interface and implemented it for all core
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objects that you can pick colors from.
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- Write smaller indexed MNG files.
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- Fixed issues with the internal statusbar API.
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- Allow for multiple light sources in the Lighting plug-in.
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- Redone file type selection in file load/save dialogs.
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- Removed HRZ plug-in.
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- Improved developers documentation.
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- Improved quality of antialiasing in the ellipse select tool.
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- Lots of bug fixes and other goodies. Check the ChangeLog for details.
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, Philip Lafleur, William Skaggs,
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Geert Jordaens, Simon Budig, Roman Joost, Michael Schumacher,
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Shlomi Fish, Hans Breuer, Brion Vibber, Robert Oegren, Kevin
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Cozens, Helvetix Victorinox
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.1
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- Added support for loading patterns in formats supported by GdkPixbuf
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(most notably PNG and JPEG).
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- Use ARGB cursors when supported by the windowing system. Added nice
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- Added previews to Solid Noise and Unsharp Mask plug-ins.
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- Improvements for painting with pressure-sensitive devices.
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- Added preview for transform tools.
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- Merged the Gaussian Blur plug-ins.
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- Simplified the Blur plug-in.
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- Reorganized the Preferences dialog.
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- Dispatch Enter, Return, Backspace and Delete key events to the tools
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and use them where it makes sense.
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- Some optimizations to the tile system, the gradient rendering and to
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the cubic interpolation routine.
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- Show the brush outline while painting.
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- Added an interface that allows to add controller modules. Such a module
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can dispatch events to The GIMP which are mapped to actions by a
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user-configurable mapping table. Added controller modules for mouse
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wheel, midi and linux_input devices.
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- Applied HIG capitalization style to all(?) dialogs.
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- Lots of bug fixes and other goodies. Check the ChangeLog for details.
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, Manish Singh, Philip Lafleur,
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William Skaggs, Geert Jordaens, Yeti, Dave Neary, Jakub Steiner,
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David Gowers, Henrik Brix Andersen, Simon Budig, Pedro Gimeno,
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.0
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GIMP 2.1.0 includes the following enhancements over GIMP 2.0:
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- Major user interface improvements.
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* Large parts of the GIMP user interface have been changed to
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comply better with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. This is
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an ongoing effort and the interface may still be inconsistent in
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* Users are now allowed to clear the undo history.
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* The unit to be used for the rulers and the coordinates display is now
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a display property and can be changed in the statusbar of the image
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* New widgets and frameworks provided by GTK+ 2.4 are used; this means
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+ uses the new GtkFileChooser dialog, vastly improving the file
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+ includes port of menus to GtkUIManager, which creates all core
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menus from XML files at runtime. This means that menu items can
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be rearranged by users simply by editing these files.
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+ uses a global accelerator table in all docks and image windows.
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This means that a hotkey will do the same thing regardless of
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which dock or image window you are using.
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+ adds replacement widgets based on GtkComboBox for most uses of
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GtkOptionMenu (GimpUnitMenu remains to be ported)
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+ adds GimpContainerEntry, a GtkEntry with completion based on
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the contents of a GimpContainer.
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+ makes the order and visibility of tools in the toolbox configurable
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+ allows keeping toolbox and dock windows above other windows (if
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the WM supports this hint)
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* The toolbox now has an optional preview of the active image.
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* The image window now accepts file/uri drops.
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- More internal cleanup and refactoring of the core object model.
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- The brush rendering code has been separated from the generic paint
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tool code. The ink tool is now a paint tool (it can do straight
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lines) and the new infrastructure allows to implement new kinds of
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paint methods like vector based painting.
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- Gradients can now be created, deleted, renamed and edited through
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- Some changes to plug-ins.
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* Plug-ins can now register the same procedures in multiple places (the
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API to register menu entries has been changed in a backward-compatible
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* Plug-ins can now optionally register a menu icon.
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* File plug-ins can now register a mime-type.
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* All plug-in dialogs have been reviewed and changed to make them
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comply better with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
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* All plug-ins that need to access files use the new GtkFileChooser
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* The obsolete AlienMap and GIcon plug-ins were removed. AlienMap2
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does everything than AlienMap did, and the GIMP-specific GIcon format
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has not been used by anything for quite some time now.
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* A plug-in to load and save windows icon files has been added.
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, Maurits Rijk, Manish Singh,
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Henrik Brix Andersen, Philip Lafleur, Raphael Quinet, Simon Budig,
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William Skaggs, Shlomi Fish, Kevin Cozens, Jakub Steiner, Dave Neary,
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Daniel Kobras, Jordi Gay, Yeti, Marco Munari, David Necas, Nils
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Philippsen, Soeren Wedel Nielsen, Joao S. O. Bueno, lots of translators
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