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diff --git a/NEWS.pre-2-8 b/NEWS.pre-2-8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..faa006c --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS.pre-2-8 @@ -0,0 +1,642 @@ + ------------------------------ + GNU Image Manipulation Program + Development Branch + ------------------------------ + +This used to be the development branch that lead to GIMP 2.8. + + +Changes in GIMP 2.8.0 +===================== + + +Core: + + - Add our own GimpOperationBrightnessContrast because GEGL one is different + + +Plug-ins: + + - Fix some GFig rendering issues + + +Source and build system: + + - Depend on Babl 0.1.10, GEGL 0.2.0 and some other new library versions + + +General: + + - Bug fixes + - Translation updates + + +Changes in GIMP 2.7.5 +===================== + + +UI: + + - Minor application menu fixes on the Mac + - Make the toolbox arbitrarily resizable again + - Add axis labels to the dynamics curves to make them more obvious + - Fix dockable showing to do the right thing in both MWM and SWM + - Fix some glitches in the tool preset UI, like proper sensitivity + + +Core: + + - Restore autoshrink functionality in the rectangle tools + - Allow smudge to work with dynamic brushes + - Make sure tool presets and tool options are consistent after loading + - Add automatic tags for the folders a file lives in + - Make the default Quick Mask color configurable + - Fix Color Balance so the "range" setting actually makes a difference + + +Plug-ins: + + - Proper toplevel item sorting in the help browser + - Use libraries instead of launching programs in file-compressor + - Use the Ghostscript library instead of launching ghostscript + - Allow to switch off antialiasing when importing from PDF + - Embed the page setup in the main print dialog + - Port Gfig to cairo + + +Libgimp: + + - Add PDB API to modify a lot of paint and ink options + + +Data: + + - Add a new set of default brushes and tool presets from Ramon Miranda + + +Developer documentation: + + - Update everything including app/ so all functions appear again + + +Source and build system: + + - Remove the unmaintained makefile.msc build system + - Explicitly link plug-ins to -lm when needed + - Also create .xz tarballs + + +General: + + - Lots of bug fixes + - Tons and tons of translation updates + + +Changes in GIMP 2.7.4 +===================== + + +UI: + + - Add a close button to image tabs in single-window mode + - Improve the transform tools' undo strings to be more descriptive + - Render the layer's "eye" icon in inconsistent state if the layer is + visible, but one of its parents isn't + - Add proper stacking for canvas items, so things don't hide each other + - Make sure single-window-mode and multi-window-mode are always saved + consistently in sessionrc + + +Core: + + - Fix "render_image_tile_fault: assertion `tile[4] != NULL' failed" + warnings that occurred for some image sizes + - Fix attachment of the floating selection when the gegl projection + is enabled + - Replace heal algorithm with a new one by Jean-Yves Couleaud that + works much better + - Make resource sub-folders show up in UI as tags, allowing users + to easily locate resource collections they may have installed + - Fix graphics tablet canvas interaction by moving from + gdk_pointer_grab() to gtk_grab_add() for most grabs + - Stop using motion hints, they are a concept from the dark ages + + +Libgimp: + + - Add a basic paint dynamics PDB interface + + +Plug-ins: + + - Make writing color space information to BMP files optional + - PSD loader now reads and imports working paths + + +Script-Fu: + + - Lots and lots of undeprecations + + +Developer documentation: + + - Add devel-docs/gegl-porting-plan.txt + + +Source and build system: + + - Make git-version.h generation work in shallow git clones + - Modernize use of autotools a bit, maintainer-mode and pdbgen + are now enabled by default + + +General: + + - Make gimptool install scripts in the correct system-wide directory + - Fix lots and lots of stuff found by static code analysis + + +Changes in GIMP 2.7.3 +===================== + + +UI: + + - Use GimpSpinScales instead of scale entries in all dockable widgets + - Allow the spin scale to control a range larger than its scale's range + - Implement RTL mode in GimpSpinScale + - Add lots of tooltips to tool options + - Allow to drop more things to the empty image window, and simply + create new images from them + - Cage tool: allow to add handle to the cage when clicking on an edge + - Cage tool: allow to remove selected handles from the cage by hitting delete + - Remember column widths in multi-column dock windows + - Support starting GIMP in single-window mode + - When the brush is shared among paint tools, also share all + brush-modifying paint options + - Use ALT+number and ALT+Tab shortcuts to navigate between images + in both single- and multi-window mode + - Make 'Export to' always activatable and fall back to 'Export...' if + no export target has been set yet + - In single-window mode, add new dockable dialogs to the image window + instead of in a new window + - When switching on single-window mode, put docks in the image window + depending on what side of the window they originally had + - When switching off single-window mode, distribute dock windows + better + - Add a canvas item for the transform grid, fixing a major speed + regression, and add the same guides options as in the rectangle tools + - Don't unmaximize the single-window mode image window when closing + images + - Resurrect the "You can drop dockable dialogs here" help string + below the toolbox + - Make pick-and-move with the Move Tool work for layers in a layer + group + + +Core: + + - Add GimpMotionBuffer which abstracts away stroke smoothing behind + a simple API and takes it out of GimpDisplayShell + - Add a GimpIdTable utility class + - Add a GimpDockContainer interface + - Add a GimpSessionManaged interface + - Add GimpCanvasRectangleGuides which makes the rectangle tool's + guides draw properly + + +Libgimp: + + - Make libgimp depend on GdkPixbuf + - Add API to create layers from cairo surfaces + - Make it impossible to include individual files from any GIMP + library. This was always forbidden and designed so it most + probably breaks, but now it reliably breaks using #error + - Deprecate the "set_sensitive" logic and use g_object_bind_property() + + +Plug-ins: + + - Use poppler's cairo API to load PDFs, the pixbuf API is removed + - Port screenshot from GdkPixbuf to cairo + - Fix the annoying parser build warnings in imagemap + - Add a check-for-deprecated-procedures-in-script-fu make target + - Update libpng code to not use deprecated API (file-mng and file-png) + - Add an Item class to pygimp + - Correct/update some labels and defaults in the JPEG plug-in's save dialog UI + - Fix "Bug 596410 - gimp-image-get-filename returns NULL for imported files" + + +Developer documentation: + + - Many updates + + +Source and build system: + + - Make cairo a global dependency, starting at libgimpcolor + - Require poppler >= 0.12.4 + - Remove gimp-remote for good, it has been disabled for years + + +General: + + - Some more undeprecations now that we use GTK+ 2.24 + - Fix lots of warnings that are new in -Wall in GCC 4.6 + - Lots of bug fixes and cleanup + - Lots of translation updates + + +Changes in GIMP 2.7.2 +===================== + + +UI: + + - A lot of undeprecations due to GTK+ 2.22 and 2.24 + - Lots and lots of cairo porting, calls to gdk_draw_* are gone + - Merge the cage transform tool from GSoC + - Remove the old bitmap cursors completely and always use RGBA cursors + also for compat cursors for old X servers + - Add new GimpCanvasItem infrastructure with subclasses for everything + that needs to be drawn on the canvas and port all tools to canvas items, + this is a huge change that touches all tools and almost all display + code, and which finally gets rid of XOR drawing altogether + - Switch from purely idle-rendering the display to something that ensures + a minimum framerate, so we don't fail to update under heavy load + - Make the text tool handle RTL mode better + - Change GimpColorMapEditor to use the newly added proxy GimpPalette + - Replace the brush scale control in tool options by a brush size + one that works in pixels, and does the right thing when the brush + changes + - Add new widget GimpSpinScale which is a scale with number entry, + and use it in all tool options + - Make the brush, pattern etc. selectors in tool options more + compact and allow to directly jump to the editor dialogs + - Make handle sizes in tools consistent + - Add an on-canvas progress and use it for tool progress instead of + the statusbar + - Add a new GimpToolPalette class with lots of code that was + in GimpToolBox + - Allow to properly drop into and after a layer group + - Refactor and clean up the dynamics editor widget, and add colors + for the curves + - Add support for F2 to rename items in lists + - Clean up GimpDeviceStatus internally and visually + - Allow to set GimpToolPreset's icon using the new GimpIconPicker widget + - Make the text tool's style overlay show default values from the + text object if there is no style active at the cursor position/selection + - Show the the text size's unit in the text style overlay + - Make tool dialogs transient to the image window again + - Consistently add a "gimp-" prefix to all window roles + - Make the preset buttons in tool options work on the global tool + presets instead of the removed per-tool preset lists + - Add GimpControllerMouse, which allows to bind extra mouse buttons to + arbitrary actions + + +Core: + + - Add uniform API to turn any GimpItem's outline into a selection + - Add support for color tags in text layers + - Remove the selection_control() stuff from GimpImage and with it + maybe last piece of UI code still not properly separated + - Add more validation code for XCF loading + - Add accessors to GimpPalette and use them globally + - Keep a proxy GimpPalette around for the image's colormap + - Don't scale SVGs when pasting or importing them + - A lot of changes to the input device handling code, partly + merged from the gtk3-port branch, add GimpDeviceManager class + - Add smoothing of paint strokes + - Fix display filters to work on a cairo surface + - Fix and enhance GimpImage's URI/filename handling API + - Unset "removed" flag on items when they get added back to + the image from the undo stack + - Change item creation to properly use GObject properties and + remove item_configure() and drawable_configure() + - Refactor tool event handling and move lots of stuff into + utility functions + - Clean up GimpViewRenderer API + - Implement transforms on group layers + - Clean up the transform tool a lot, and refactor away old junk + - Tool and tool event cleanup: enforce tool activate/halt invariants, + consistently shutdown all tools in control(HALT), and many other + tool fixes + - Remove GimpToolPresets object, this functionality got merged into + the new GimpToolPreset system + - Rename GimpFilteredContainer to GimpTaggedContainer and add a new + GimpFilteredContainer parent class which is a generic filter + - Remove the concept of an "offset" from TileManager and instead + pass around the offsets explicitly when needed, like when + transforming + - Move GimpBezier desc from vectors/ to core/ and add API to create + one from sorted BoundSegs + - Change GimpBrush boundary API to return a GimpBezierDesc + - Add GimpBrushCache object and use it to cache a brush's transformed + pixels and its outline, remove the caching code from GimpBrushCore + - Add GimpBezierDesc based API to GimpScanConvert and use it + + +GEGL: + + - Add operations and gegl infrastructure for the cage tool + - Disable View -> Use GEGL as we will not have time to finish the + GEGL projection code for GIMP 2.8 + + +Libgimp: + + - Introduce an "item" type in the PDB and libgimp and deprecate + lots of old API in favor of item API + - Add procedures to create, traverse and manipulate layer trees + - Add more state to the context API, and deprecate functions with + too many parameters in favor of simpler ones that use context states, + particularly the entire transform and selection API + - Move GimpUnitStore and GimpUnitComboBox to libgimpwidgets, and + use them in GimpSizeEntry, deprecate GimpUnitMenu. + - Deprecate gimp_min_colors() and gimp_install_cmap() + - Add API that enables GimpRuler to track motion events by itself + - Add new selection API and deprecate all old selection functions + - Move around and rename all parasite functions, deprecate the old ones + - Add a generated PDB file in the "gimp" namespace and get rid + of "gimpmisc" + - Add unit conversion functions to libgimpbase + - Add function to reset a plug-in's context to default values + + +Plug-ins: + + - Make script-fu server IPv6 aware + - Follow libgimp deprecations in plug-ins and scripts + - Add PDF export plugin + - Lots of cairo porting here too + - UTF-8 fixes in script-fu + - Set the progress to 1.0 when done + - Merge a lot of upstream fixes into script-fu's Tinyscheme + - Add "New Layer" option to MapObject + - Support loading of 16-bit raw PPM files + - Add web-page, a new plug-in which renders images of web pages + - Fix some more plug-ins to not warn if applied on an empty region + + +Data: + + - Remove "Untitled" from palette names entries + + +Developer documentation: + + - Move libgimp documentation from templates to inline comments + - Generate standard deprecated sections + + +Source and build system: + + - Add more code documentation + - Add more unit tests and refactor existing ones to use global + test utility functions + - Add a manifest to executables (app and plug-ins, Win32) + - Depend on GLib 2.28, GTK+ 2.24, Cairo 1.10 + - Make WebKit available to all plug-ins, not just the help browser + - Run UI tests on Xvfb if available + - Check for GdkPixbuf separately because it's now a separate library + - Allow tests to use uninstalled plug-ins from the build dir + - Remove, comment out, or build for GIMP_UNSTABLE some stuff that + should not be in a stable release + + +General: + + - Improve safety on Win32 by calling SetDllDirectory() and + SetProcessDEPPolicy() + - Switch from GtkObject::destroy() to GObject::dispose() all over + the place + - Various changes that make maintaining the gtk3-port branch easier, + such as s/GtkAnchorType/GimpHandleAnchor/ and s/GtkObject/GtkAdjustment/ + - Don't use gtk_container_add() for adding to GtkBoxes + - Inherit from GtkBox directly, not from GtkHBox/GtkVBox + - Add namespace to the ink blob types and functions + - Remove all useless calls to gtk_range_set_update_policy() + - Use GObject::constructed() instead of GObject::constructor() all + over the place + - Move more members to private and add accessors for them + - Stop using GdkNativeWindow, use guint32 instead + - Plug memory leaks + - Remove ps-menurc, we are not a PS clone + - Use the new g_[s]list_free_full() instead of foreach() and free() + - Don't use newly deprecated GTK+ API + - Use the new GDK_KEY_foo key names + - Lots of bug fixes and cleanup + - Lots of translation updates + + +Changes in GIMP 2.7.1 +===================== + + +UI: + + - Add "lock content" button to the layers, channels and paths dialogs, + make the lock buttons more compact + - Refuse to edit locked items + - Add support for layer groups + - Improve internals and GUI of the save/export functionality + - Move the shortcut dialog's "clear" button into the entry + - Clean up UI code by introducing GimpDockWindow and GimpImageWindow + classes + - Support multi-column dock windows + - Get rid of docking bars, use highlights in existing widget hierarchy instead + - Remove toolbox-window-hint gimprc setting and use dock-window-hint + for both toolbox and docks instead + - Move GimpDock::default-height style property to GimpDockWindow + - Polish save+export path-part precedence rules + - Merge the GSoC 2009 Advanced GUI for Brush Dynamics project + - Default to non-fixed-aspect in Canvas Size dialog + - Add a still incomplete and Single-window mode + - Have an Export button, not Save, in export dialogs + - Improve Free Select Tool handle highlighting + - Support changing user interface language from preferences + - Update ps-menurc with PS CS4 keyboard shortcuts + - Reduce spacing around canvas and use it for the canvas itself + - Put name of active dockables in dock window titles + - Don't have Toolbox in list of Recently Closed Docks, handle that + directly in the Windows menu + - Support selecting and tagging multiple objects in resource lists + - Improve on-canvas text editing and text attribute setting + - Add GimpContainerTreeStore and use it in all GtkTreeStore based views + - Add a new default "automatic" tab style that makes sure dockable tabs + always show as much detail as possible + - Remove the dockable title bar and add the menu arrow button next to the + notebook tabs + - Add an icon for the desaturate tool + - Add 'Rule of fifths' crop guide overlay + - Make Alt+Click on layers not affect active layer + + +Core: + + - Make all GimpItems lockable so their contents can't be changed + - Make more sense when naming imported layers + - Make group layers work except for layer masks and save them in + the XCF + - Change GimpProjectable::update to GimpProjectable:invalidate + - Make sure we don't mix font backends (and crash) by explicitly + asking for FT/Fontconfig backends + - Move members of GimpObject to a private struct + - gimp_object_get_name() takes a gconstpointer now, remove casts + from all callers + - Let drawables connect to their floating selection's "update" signal + instead of letting the image do this job + - Fix brush rotation artifacts at even 90 degree rotation + - Don't leak shared tile memory on Solaris + - Add a PDB procedure to access a text layer's markup + - Remove legacy cruft from pdbgen and make sure number ranges are correct + - Move all image creation functions to a common file + - Add translation context to all undo descriptions + + +GEGL: + + - Make sure all nodes are added to their resp. graphs + - Use GEGL for layer scaling if use-gegl is TRUE + + +Plug-ins: + + - Updated script-fu's scheme to latest upstream fixes + - Don't store image-specific print settings globally + - Add fundamental OpenRaster (.ora) import and export support + - Add RGB565 support to the csource plug-in + + +Data: + + - Add texture/grunge brushes made by Johannes Engelhardt + + +Developer documentation: + + - Explain GimpContext + - Add SVG graphic with GIMP application core module dependencies + - Add a schedule for 2.8 development + + +Source and build system: + + - Add more code documentation + - Clean up subsystem linking dependencies in app/ + - Add unit testing framework in app/tests/ and some basic tests, + including basic UI tests and XCF tests + - Tentatively introduce usage of using Glade + GtkBuilder + - Depend on GLib 2.24.0 and GTK+ 2.20.0 + - Add git commit hash in --verbose --version output + - Don't version control gtk-doc.m4, get it from gtkdocize + - Add GimpObject tracking code + - Plug memory leaks + - Lots of bug fixes and cleanup + - Lots of translation updates + + +Changes in GIMP 2.7.0 +===================== + +UI: + - Change the Text Tool to perform text editing on-canvas (GSoC 2008) + and add the ability to mix different text styles in the same layer + - Add support for tagging GIMP resources such as brushes and allow + filtering based on these tags (GSoC 2008) + - Separate the activities of saving an image and exporting it, there is + now a 'File->Export...' for example + - Port file plug-ins to new export API which gets rid of many + annoying export dialogs + - Add a simple parser to size entry widgets, images can be scaled + to e.g. "50%" or "2 * 37px + 10in" + - Arrange layer modes into more logical and useful groups + - Added support for rotation of brushes + - Make the Pointer dockable show information about selection position + and size + - Get rid of the Tools dockable and move toolbox configuration to + Preferences + - Allow closing the toolbox without closing the whole application + - Add status bar feedback for keyboard changes to brush parameters + - Add diagonal guides to the Crop Tool + - New docks are created at the pointer position + - Add support for printing crop marks for images + - Move 'Text along path' from tool options to text context menu + - Change default shortcuts for "Shrink Wrap" and "Fit in Window" to + Ctrl+J and Ctrl+Shift+J respectively since the previous shortcuts + are now used for the save+export feature + - Make Alt+Click on layers in Layers dockable create a selection from + the layer + - Allow to specify written language in the Text Tool + - Support custom mapping curves for input device properties like "Pressure" + - New desktop launcher icon + - Add 'Windows→Hide docks' menu item that does what 'Tab' does and also displays + its state. Make the state persistent across sessions, too. + - Make dock window title separators translatable + + +Plug-ins: + + - Map the 'Linear Dodge' layer mode in PSD files to the 'Addition' + layer mode in GIMP + - Add JPEG2000 load plug-in + - Add X11 mouse cursor plug-in + - Add support for loading 16bit (RGB565) raw data + - Add palette exporter for CSS, PHP, Python, txt and Java, accessed + through palette context menu + - Add plug-in API for getting image URI, for manipulating size of + text layers, for getting and setting text layer hint, and for + unified export dialog appearance + - Add an 'As Animation' toggle to the GIF export options + - Add 'active_vectors' getsetter to Python 'gimp.Image' + + +Data: + + - Add large variants of round brushes and remove duplicate and + useless brushes + - Add "FG to BG (Hardedge)" gradient + + +GEGL: + + - Port the projection code, the code that composes a single image + from a stack of layers, to GEGL + - Port layer modes to GEGL + - Port the floating selection code to GEGL + - Refactor the layer stack code to prepare for layer groups later + - Prepare better and more intuitive handling of the floating + selection + - Add File->Debug->Show Image Graph that show the GEGL graph of an + image + - Allow to benchmark projection performance with + File->Debug->Benchmark Projection + - When using GEGL for the projection, use CIELCH instead of HSV/HSL + for color based layer modes + + +Core: + + - Make painting strokes Catmull-Rom Spline interpolated + - Add support for arbitrary affine transforms of brushes + - Add support for brush dynamics to depend on tilt + - Add aspect ratio to brush dynamics + - Add infrastructure to soon support vector layers (GSoC 2006) + - Rearrange legacy layer mode code to increase maintainability + - Drop support for the obsolete GnomeVFS file-uri backend + - Allow to dump keyboard shortcuts with File->Debug->Dump Keyboard + Shortcuts + - Prepare data structures for layer groups + - Remove gimprc setting "menu-mnemonics", + "GtkSettings:gtk-enable-mnemonics" shall be used instead + - Remove "transient-docks" gimprc setting, the 'Utility window' hint + and a sane window manager does a better job + - Remove "web-browser" gimprc setting and use gtk_show_uri() instead + + +General: + + - Changed license to (L)GPLv3+ + - Use the automake 1.11 feature 'silent build rules' by default + - Lots of bug fixes and cleanup |