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diff --git a/NEWS.pre-2-4 b/NEWS.pre-2-4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a7038be --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS.pre-2-4 @@ -0,0 +1,570 @@ + ------------------------------ + GNU Image Manipulation Program + Development Branch + ------------------------------ + +This used to be the development branch that lead to GIMP 2.4. + + +Changes in GIMP 2.4.0 +===================== + +- further improved the rectangle select and crop tools +- allow to mark out-of-gamut colors when doing a soft proof +- bug fixes + + +Changes in GIMP 2.4.0-rc3 +========================= + +- use the new format for storing recently used files +- added conversion options to the color profile conversion plug-in +- allow to disable the toolbox menu on all platforms +- further improved handling of the JPEG settings +- switch tabs when hovering over them +- added a PDB function to remove the alpha channel from a layer +- plug-in previews remember the state of the Preview checkbox (bug #478657) +- allow to grow the image/layer using the Crop tool +- bug fixes + + +Changes in GIMP 2.4.0-rc2 +========================= + +- more improvements and bug fixes in the rectangle tools +- antialias the display for zoom levels between 100% and 200% +- fix zoomed-out display problems +- improve handling of JPEG settings +- fix script-fu error reporting +- on OS X, get rid of menubars in windows and use the global menubar +- fix plug-ins using GimpZoomPreview +- throw properly catchable exceptions from foreign script-fu function + (like PDB wrappers) +- bug fixes + + +Changes in GIMP 2.4.0-rc1 +========================= + +- further improvement to the Print plug-in +- completed the color management functionality for 2.4 +- store JPEG setting with the image and use them when saving as JPEG +- further improved the rectangle tools, in particular handling of the + fixed aspect ratio +- added color profile selector widget +- further improved the display quality for zoomed-out views + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.19 +====================== + +- support long layer names in PSD files +- improved EXIF handling in the JPEG file plug-in +- added control for the playback speed in the Animation Playback plug-in +- avoid needless image preview invalidation +- allow to edit the image comment in the Image Properties dialog +- further improved rectangle tools +- made JPEG save parameters user-configurable +- avoid color conversions between identical ICC color profiles +- improved Print plug-in +- improved loading and saving of indexed TGA images +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.18 +====================== + +- temporarily show the hidden image statusbar while the progress is active +- added support for loading .abr v6 Photoshop brushes +- improved usability of color scales +- improved display quality of zoomed-out image view +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.17 +====================== + +- improved import of multi-page TIFF files +- reduced rounding errors in Blur routines (core and plug-ins) +- further improved parameter checks in the PDB +- added support for loading .abr v2 Photoshop brushes +- improved border behavior of the Blur tool +- show the brush outline at the Clone tool's source position +- added libgimpbase API to retrieve the user's Pictures folder +- add a shortcut to the user's Pictures folder to the file-chooser dialog +- improved the quality of the Motion Blur filter +- save paths in TIFF files +- let the Screenshot plug-in name the new layer after the window +- use memory slices to reduce memory fragmentation +- some code cleanup +- lots of bug fixes + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.16 +====================== + +- make the XOR color configurable as a workaround for broken drivers +- allow to assign keyboard shortcuts to procedures without menu entry +- allow to configure the height of the preview area in data editors +- improved file detection in TGA plug-in +- improved brush scaling code, now also scales up +- converted standard pixmap brushes to parametric ones +- improved zoom tool behavior +- D-Bus methods now have a return value indicating success or failure +- added more menu tooltips +- allow procedures to request the display ID they are being called from +- depend on GTK+ >= 2.10.6 and use some of the new functions in GTK+ 2.10 +- allow filename passed on the command-line to be opened as new images +- various optimizations +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.15 +====================== + +- added keyboard control to rectangle tools and improved their tool options +- improved console handling on Win32 +- support large XCF files (> 2GB) on Win32 also +- cleanup of the internal undo system +- ask before overwriting files, not only for image files +- added "Revert Zoom" functionality +- added GimpStringComboBox widget to libgimpwidgets +- added HAL support for hotplug of Linux Input devices +- added support for shaped windows to the Screenshot plug-in +- improved handling of incomplete PNG files +- categorize contributors into active and inactive +- added controller module for DirectInput controllers on Win32 +- speed up transform tools +- improved tool cancellation framework +- fixed Select -> Border behaviour and added option for 'sticky image edges' +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.14 +====================== + +- added actions to control brush spacing +- polished appearance of image window +- scale the brush's spacing when scaling the brush +- save tool presets when they are changed +- improved handling of vectors in the Python bindings +- allow for auto-cropping the result of the transform tools +- added GimpRatioEntry widget and use it in the rectangle tool options +- added functions to transform between preview and image coordinates +- added PDB functions to validate display, drawable, image and vectors IDs +- added HSL color model to Decompose and Compose plug-ins +- further improved status bar messages for tools +- on systems with D-Bus build gimp-remote functionality into gimp executable +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.13 +====================== + +- show information about embedded color profiles in Image Properties dialog +- allow to apply color profiles on load (still work in progress) +- new vectors PDB API to replace the old path API +- added "Auntie Alias" plug-in for antialiasing on lineart +- added Edit->Fade operation +- added Rounded Corners option to Rectangle Select tool +- improved WinIcon plug-in (now loads and saves 24 bit and Vista icons) +- merged gimp-tiny-fu; replaces Script-Fu Scheme interpreter with TinyScheme +- remember unit and interpolation type in scale and resize dialogs +- changed default interpolation type to Cubic +- show comment in Image Properties dialog +- when loading in image as layers, don't merge the layers +- added experimental palette color selector module +- don't save thumbnails that don't match the image +- increased tool handle sizes for better usability +- implemented brush scaling from the tool options (only downscaling yet) +- import paths embedded into TIFF files +- support vectors in the Script-Fu and Python-Fu user interfaces +- added PDB functions to retrieve position of layers/channels/vectors +- added side pane with table of contents to the Help Browser +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.12 +====================== + +- merged the Perspective Clone tool +- allow to pan the image view using the Space bar +- show a thumbnail in the "Rotate JPEG?" query dialog +- added file information to the Image Properties dialog +- more work on the new selection tools +- give immediate feedback when tool modifier keys are pressed +- added Lens Distortion plug-in +- internationalize Python binding and Python plug-ins +- improved internal message infrastructure, use the statusbar for warnings +- added an URL loader backend based on libcurl +- build a color-managed CMYK color selector if lcms is available +- localize Script-Fu procedure descriptions +- lots of user interface polishing +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.11 +====================== + +- depend on newer versions of glib, gtk+ and pango and use some of the new + features in these libraries +- made Ctrl-P the default shortcut for Print +- show progress when loading/saving XCF files +- added support for 16/32 bit bitmaps and alpha channel to the BMP plug-in +- if possible, detect the number of CPUs +- allow to disable the build of the Script-Fu extension +- many improvements to the Python bindings and the pygimp user interface +- made message dialogs transient for the progress window +- added PDB API for creating a selection from vectors +- further improved status bar messages for tools +- derive ByColorSelect and FuzzySelect tools from a common base class +- finer control over select-by-color functionality +- minor optimizations in the drawing code +- abstract brush outline drawing into the common base class GimpBrushTool +- store sample points in XCF files +- added extended PDB API for selection procedures +- added convenience API to libgimp that creates a layer from a GdkPixbuf +- added midpoint handles to Scale tool for scaling with fixed width or height +- let color picker tools select a matching color in the Palette Editor +- allow to use foreground and background color in gradients +- added first draft of a new Healing Brush tool +- abstract clone tool functionality into the common base class GimpSourceTool +- improvements to the new selection tools +- don't wake up the gimp every so often +- added GimpHintBox widget to libgimpwidgets +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.10 +====================== + +- added support for a registration color in the Decompose plug-in +- the Align tool now also aligns to guides +- allow use of CSS color notation in Script-Fu +- more work on the new selection tools +- let Fractal Explorer work on grayscale and give it a larger preview +- speed up Value Invert plug-in +- added strong undo/redo functions bound to Shift-Ctrl-[ZY] +- use radio items for the image mode menu +- applied Tango style on the default iconset +- added plug-in for colormap manipulation +- allow plug-ins to register in Layers, Channels, Vectors and Colormap dialog +- added load plug-in to open desktop links +- removed print plug-ins and started work on a replacement using the + new GTK+ Print API +- added replacements for gimp_foo_select widgets, akin to GimpFontSelectButton +- introduced translation context to a number of colliding strings +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.9 +===================== + +- better interpolation for "smooth" curves in the Curve tool +- added an Auto button to the Threshold tool that picks a suitable value +- simplified user installation, only display a dialog in case of an error +- added Red Eye Removal plug-in +- added thumbnail loader to GIF load plug-in +- declared even more data as const +- refactoring of the PDB and plug-in management code +- allow Merge to work on a single layer +- added a way to remove all keyboard shortcuts from the Preferences dialog +- added menu items for "Text to Path", "Text along Path" and "Text to + Selection" +- allow to initialize a new layer mask with any of the image's channels +- added clipboard brush and clipboard pattern +- added scripts to sort color palettes +- swap meanings of "dilate" and "erode" which have been wrong for a long time +- show Clone tool source location while painting +- use GtkFileChooserButton in place of GimpFileEntry +- added script to reverse the order of layers +- added "Sample merged" and "Selected Pixels only" options to Palette import +- added actions to select palette and colormap colors +- new environment variable to control which batch interpreter to use +- give plug-ins access to the CPU detection so that they can use MMX code +- speed up Selective Gaussian Blur plug-in +- improved tool cursors, added edge resizing cursors +- improved behaviour of new selection tools +- allow to reset all gimprc values from the Preferences dialog +- optionally show guides in the Crop tool +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.8 +===================== + +- added new tile primitive Triangle to Mosaic plug-in +- speed up Gaussian Blur plug-in +- suppress redundant progress updates from plug-ins +- changed some gimprc and sessionrc default values (window hints, + fullscreen mode) +- do not focus transform tool dialogs on map +- renamed Magnify tool to Zoom tool and added some missing tool shortcuts +- added a submenu with recently used plug-ins to the Filters menu +- fixed look-up table used for Contrast adjustments +- improved the user interface of the Animation Playback plug-in +- added framework for describing menu entries in the statusbar +- added lots of helpful blurbs to procedures and core actions +- remove color from the Watercolor selector if Shift is being pressed +- ported PDB internals to GParamSpec and GValue +- speedup and UI improvements for the SIOX tool +- added parasite getters and settors for vectors +- made PSD load and save plug-ins 64bit clean +- some string review +- ported ellipse select tool to the new rectangle tool +- added basic support for layer masks to the PSD save plug-in +- avoid relocations by declaring more data as const +- new application icons in more sizes and as a SVG +- provide script-specific samples instead of hard-coding "Aa" for font preview +- build the Screenshot plug-in on all platforms +- allow to discard invisible layers when merging visible layers +- nicer output from gimp-procedural-db-dump +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.7 +===================== + +- depend on GTK+ 2.8, use some of the new features +- removed workarounds for problems in GTK+ 2.6 +- moved Align Visible Layers to the Image menu +- started to add a new vectors PDB API +- make it more obvious that docks can be rearranged by drag and drop +- modified the behaviour of the Tab key +- added --license command-line option +- improved dither matrix for RGB->Indexed conversion +- added PDB API to stroke with any paint method +- gave some plug-ins more sensible names +- keep settings of brush/pattern/font/... button popups across sessions +- reduced number of memory allocations by declaring some strings as static +- some improvements to the plug-in preview widgets +- added links to important topics in the user manual +- let the configure script display a summary of options +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.6 +===================== + +- even faster application startup +- binary relocatibility on Linux by means of binreloc +- be more verbose when being asked for it +- select color index when picking from an indexed drawable +- allow to migrate windows between displays +- mouse-wheel scrolling and zooming in plug-in previews +- added keyboard shortcuts ([ and ]) for changing the brush radius +- improved Oilify plug-in +- made the IWarp plug-in preview resizeable +- added alignment mode for cloning from a fixed location source +- completed core/ui separation of paint tools and paint methods +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.5 +===================== + +- optionally add jitter to paint strokes +- implemented Snap to Path +- added PDB API to access the Image Grid +- ease access to Keyboard Shortcuts editor +- optimizations to the Tile Cache and Undo/Redo implementations +- more work on the Buffer PDB API +- bug fixes to the new zoomable plug-in previews +- optimization of the SIOX algorithm +- menu reorganisation in the Toolbox menu +- export "Open As Layer" to the PDB as file-load-layer +- added keyboard control for the Curves tool +- load and save embedded ICC profiles from/to PNG images +- improved appearance of some tool icons on dark background +- added PDB API to get and set path visibility +- let data editors follow the active brush, palette and gradient (optional) +- some rearrangements in the new toplevel Colors menu +- speed up reloading of data files +- allow to copy the location of data files to the clipboard +- allow to disable saving of the document history in the preferences +- slightly faster application startup +- more use of ngettext for plural forms +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.4 +===================== + +- allow plug-ins and scripts to register menu entries in the <Brushes>, + <Gradients>, <Palettes>, <Patterns> and <Fonts> menus +- replaced Selection to Brush/Pattern scripts with scripts that paste + a new brush/pattern from the content of the clipboard +- allow to easily close all opened images +- added a first version of a Print plug-in using libgnomeprint +- improved Sphere Designer plug-in +- improved Compose plug-in +- added a zoomable preview widget for plug-ins +- implement copy and paste of paths as SVG +- use new stock icons introduced with GTK+ 2.6 +- allow to zoom in/out using the +/- keys on the numerical keypad +- make it easier to drop dockables below the toolbox +- set plug-in dialogs transient to the window they have been called from +- added PDB function to obtain handles to the image and progress windows +- export named buffers to the PDB +- easier access to the popup menu in empty container views +- use ngettext for plural forms +- implement "Sample Merged" for the Clone tool +- various Win32 fixes +- fixed capitalization for better HIG compliance +- use a descriptive verb instead of "OK" as button label in most dialogs +- redone About dialog to be more informative +- take the default unit from the locale settings +- moved color-related tools and plug-ins to a new toplevel Colors menu +- let the gnomevfs plug-in use GNOME authentication manager if available +- rewritten Crop tool (work in progress) +- added page selector to the Postscript Import plug-in +- added preview to Checkerboard and Threshold Alpha plug-ins +- more PDB procedure and parameter name canonicalization +- touched up new path tool cursors and added one for the Join operation +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.3 +===================== + +- improved new GimpPageSelector widget +- minor improvements to the Procedure and Plug-In browsers +- set alternative button order in some places that were missed earlier +- added SIOX algorithm for foreground extraction +- fixed most gcc 4.0 warnings +- improved Cursor view and Sample Points functionality +- prepared code and UI for more layer lock types +- added new PDF import plug-in based on libpoppler +- undeprecated and improved palette editor, added cursor navigation +- show more information in the Image Properties dialog +- added prototype of SIOX foreground selection tool +- fixed build of MMX code on gcc 4.0 +- moved procedure browser to libgimpwidgets as GimpProcBrowserDialog +- canonicalize PDB procedure and parameter names +- use the coefficients from the sRGB spec when calculating luminance +- allow to remove alpha channel from a layer +- added more different cursors for the paths tool +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.2 +===================== + +- more standard way of dealing with translation of the startup tips +- allow to use the selected font in the text tool's text editor +- some minor UI changes for HIG compliance +- redid the framework that deals with installing desktop files +- started to reorganize menus, mainly plug-ins and scripts +- renamed "Scatter RGB" and "Scatter HSV" to "RGB Noise" and "HSV Noise" +- allow to clear the document history +- don't normalize the result in the Laplace plug-in (bug #306874) +- ported FractalExplorer GUI to GtkTreeView, getting rid of the last + XPM icons that were being used +- added an option to Motion Blur to blur outwards +- added support for the proposed ICC Profiles In X Specification +- added new widget GimpEnumLabel to libgimpwidgets +- let the lcms display filter module show information about the used + color profiles +- improved drawing of the brush outline +- fixed build of Python language binding on Win32 +- allow plug-ins to access the user's color management configuration +- added new widget GimpPageSelector to libgimpwidgets +- reenabled the Debug menu +- load and save ICC color profiles from/to JPEG images +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.1 +===================== + +- allow to copy and paste SVG between GIMP and other applications +- added a utility for testing and debugging clipboard operations +- more work on the new vectors PDB API +- made screen edges active in the image display in fullscreen mode +- made file and color selection dialogs transient to their parent windows +- moved browser widget from Procedure Browser plug-in to libgimpwidgets +- allow more search types in the Procedure Browser +- reduced size of the Colors dockable by moving the hex entry down +- added object properties to GimpColorArea and GimpColorButton +- changed default for RGB->Indexed conversion to not to any dithering +- allow to paste a new image using Ctrl-V on the toolbox +- show previews of dash presets in Stroke Options dialog +- Escape key cancels the window selection in the Screenshot plug-in +- allow to operate the Brightness Contrast tool by clicking and dragging + on the canvas +- improved Sample Points dockable +- added first draft of new align tool +- turned image and drawable combo boxes in libgimpui into real widgets +- further improved Python bindings +- nicer DND icons for viewables +- allow to hide the button-bar found at the bottom of most dockables +- turned font selection in libgimpui into a real widget +- added support for BMP files with alpha channel (RGBA) +- bug fixes and code cleanup + + +Changes in GIMP 2.3.0 +===================== + +- added Recompose plug-in +- added rectangle tool in GFig plug-in +- improved palette editor color DND +- improved EXIF handling in JPEG plug-in +- smoother autoscrolling in image display +- added Snap to Canvas Border and Snap to Path (yet unimplemented) +- added previews to Mosaic, Pixelize and Sparkle plug-ins +- added Lanczos interpolation method +- added Open as Image menu entries to brushes and patterns dialogs +- improved drag-n-drop of drawables within GIMP +- added a prototype of a new rectangular select tool +- moved a bunch of enums from core into libgimpbase +- moved GimpConfig functionality from core into libgimpconfig +- moved GimpEnumStore and GimpEnumComboBox to libgimpwidgets +- moved convenience constructors for property views to libgimpwidgets +- ported ImageMap plug-in to action based menus. +- first steps towards color management +- use GOptionContext for command-line parsing +- added a gnome-vfs backend for the uri plug-in (former url plug-in) +- prepared code for accessing remote files in the file-chooser +- let all dialogs obey the gtk-alternative-button-order setting +- extended GimpProgress PDB API +- improved file type handling in file save dialog +- resurrected threaded pixel processor and enable it by default +- parallelized a few more internal functions +- speed up gradient dithering +- improved PSD save plug-in +- improved Python bindings +- allow to resize layers with the image +- allow to control letter spacing in the text tool +- added path-on-path functionality, use it to implement Text on Path +- improved gradient editor +- allow to import paths from a string +- ported all code to gstdio wrappers +- added infrastructure for color sample points +- added first draft of a metadata editor plug-in +- speed up burn compositing function +- added Altivec versions of some compositing functions +- added PDB API to control the number of columns in a palette +- allow to control hue overlap in Hue-Saturation tool +- added a PDB API to register menu branches +- added missing mnemonics +- improved Screenshot plug-in +- allow to drag brushes/patterns/gradients... to the selectors in Script-Fu +- allow to save images by dragging them to a filemanager that supports the + XDS protocol +- optimizations in the Color Deficiency display filter +- transfer the clipboard content to a clipboard manager on exit +- moved cursor info out of the Info window into a dockable +- moved remaining bits of the Info Window to a new Image Properties dialog +- build and install gimp-console by default +- allow to drag and drop image data into GIMP +- use the statusbar more to display hints and info about the tool state +- resurrected --no-data functionality +- zoom to the cursor position instead of the display center +- some improvements to the Helpbrowser plug-in +- load PS brushes in the .abr format +- allow to choose between different algorithms for Desaturate +- added thumbnail loader to Winicon plug-in +- improved configuration of input controllers +- added an option to make the dock windows transient to the active image display +- lots of code cleanup and bug-fixes |