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