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The GNU Image Manipulation Program Version 1.3
A Colorspace Odyssey
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GIMP 1.3 is the development branch of The GIMP. Here's where the
development takes place on the road to the next stablerelease
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dubbed GIMP 1.4.
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.10
==================================
- Text tool can load text files now [Sven]
- Some unfinished work on the imagemap tools and related widgets [Sven]
- Undeprecated ink tool [Bolsh, Sven]
- Slightly tweaked the look and feel of the toolbox [Mitch, Sven]
- Ported module loading to GTypeModule [Mitch]
- Resurrected the water color selector [Mitch]
- Reworked module browser [Mitch]
- Moved generic datafile loading to LibGimpBase [Mitch]
- Added GimpColorScale widget [Mitch, Sven]
- Added GimpPickButton widget [Mitch]
- Added a color selector dock [Mitch]
- Added new layer modes (Softlight, Grain Extract, Grain Merge) [UnNamed]
- Lots of bug fixes
Other contributors:
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Maurits Rijk, Michael Niedermayer, Garry R. Osgood, David Necas,
Toby Smith, Raphael Quinet, Dave Neary
Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.9
=================================
- Some minor improvements to the text tool [Sven]
- Started to cleanup DND code [Mitch]
- Added GimpViewableDialog [Mitch]
- Improved UI of color adjustment tools [Mitch]
- Added new icons [Jimmac, Mitch]
- Added GimpSelectionEditor, a view on the current selection [Mitch]
- Improved imagemap plug-in [Maurits]
- GUI cleanups [Mitch, Sven, Maurits]
- Build fixes [Hans, Yosh, Sven]
- Lots of bug fixes
Other contributors:
James Henstridge, Dave Neary, Simon Budig
Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.8
=================================
- Lots of plug-ins cleaned up and improved [Maurits]
- More work on the help browser [Sven]
- Core code cleanup [Mitch, Sven]
- Improved icons [Jimmac]
- Fixed permissions of shared memory segments
- Build fixes [Yosh, Sven]
- Bug fixes
Other contributors:
Dave Neary, Zbigniew Chyla, Simon Budig
Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.7
=================================
- Build fixes
- Bug fixes
Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.6
=================================
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- Support tile cache > 4GB on machines with 64bit long integers [Sven]
- Added support for large files (> 2GB) [Sven]
- Cleaned up configure, updated to autoconf-2.52 [Sven]
- Temporary switch to the Move tool when Space is pressed [Mitch]
- More cleanup of display code [Mitch]
- Added mnemonics to lots of plug-ins and fixed some bugs [Maurits Rijk]
- Added new PDB function gimp_image_get_name and corrected behaviour of
gimp_image_get_filename [Yosh, Sven]
- Navigation dialog redone as a dockable [Mitch]
- Updated print plug-in to new version and depend on libgimpprint [Sven]
- Generalized and improved the new config framework; use it for parasites,
documents and devices [Mitch, Sven]
- Started to port the help browser to GtkHtml2 [Sven]
- Finished implementation of the Thumbnail Managing Standard [Mitch, Sven]
- Improved Open dialog using the new thumbnails [Mitch, Sven]
- Use UTF-8 encoded URIs where we used to use filenames [Mitch]
- Plug-in fixes [Iccii]
- Added shortcuts to crop layer or image to selection boundary [Mitch]
- Changes for build on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
- Started framework for tools loaded as modules or plug-ins [Nathan]
- Lots of bugfixes
- More stuff not mentioned here (see the ChangeLog)
Other contributors:
Zbigniew Chyla, OEyvind Kolaas, Nick Lamb, David Monniaux, Raphael Quinet,
Jakub Steiner, Simon Budig
Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.5
=================================
- Improved tool options and made them dockable [Mitch]
- Cleanup of brush, gradient, pattern and palette PDB functions [Mitch]
- Autogenerate libgimp/gimp_pdb.h [Yosh]
- Converted the toolbox to a dock [Mitch]
- Resurrected display filter modules [Mitch]
- Plug-in code cleanup (colorify) [Maurits Rijk]
- New menu icons [Jimmac, Mitch]
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- New widgets to choose from enum values [Sven]
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- Enum cleanups [Yosh, Sven]
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- Resizeable docks [Mitch]
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- Parse unitrc and document history using GScanner [Mitch]
- Fixes for build on Win32 [Hans]
- Treeviewified user installation dialog [Yosh]
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- Bugfixes
- More stuff not mentioned here (see the ChangeLog)
Other Contributors:
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Rebecca Walter, Tuomas Kuosmanen, Marcel Telka
Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.4
=================================
- Improved image status bar and image title [Mitch]
- Updated thumbnail code according to changes in proposed standard [Sven]
- Implemented init_proc in plug-ins [Nathan]
- Allow to choose interpolation for individual transformations [Mitch]
- More framework for tool plug-ins, landed a first tool [Nathan]
- Started core/UI separation for the paint tools [Mitch]
- Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer]
- Plug-in code cleanups (aa, colortoalpha, glasstile, guillotine, vinvert,
pagecurl) [Maurits Rijk, Sven]
- I18n changes, we now use glib-gettextize and intltoolize [Sven]
- New layer mask initialization modes [Mitch]
- Colorpicker, Transform tool and PDB fixes [Mitch]
- Factored out paint code from the paint tools [Mitch]
- New vectors infrastructure [Simon]
- First draft of a new vectors tool [Simon, Mitch]
- Scanline conversion (Path to selection etc.) changed to use libart [Simon]
- Undo cleanups [Mitch]
- Changed tips file format to XML [Sven]
- Added desktop file for GNOME-2 [Sven]
- Added GimpItem class to generalize core code even further [Mitch]
- Improved preferences dialog [Mitch, Sven, Jimmac]
- New tool icons [Jimmac]
- Editor widgets for brushes, gradients and palettes [Mitch]
- Revival of the API reference [Sven]
- Bugfixes
- More stuff not mentioned here (see the ChangeLog)
Other Contributors:
Manish Singh, Rebecca Walter, Guillermo S. Romero
Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.3
=================================
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- Most of the code is free of deprecated GTK+ calls now [Mitch, Yosh, Sven]
- More use of stock icons [Sven, Mitch]
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- New RGB->Indexed quantizer [Adam]
- Framework for pluggable tools [Nathan]
- More tool system cleanups [Mitch]
- Improved image status bar [Mitch]
- GimpObjects now know their memory footprint [Mitch]
- GimpUnit cleanup [Sven]
- Message proofreading [Bex]
- configure.in should work with autoconf-2.5 [Raja R Harinath]
- Bugfixes
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- More stuff not mentioned here (see the ChangeLog)
Other Contributors:
Simon Budig
Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.2
=================================
- Cleanup of display and tools [Mitch]
- Improvements to tools UI [Mitch]
- Reenabled brush pipes [Mitch]
- Started to reorganize menus [Mitch]
- Cleanup of internal enums [Sven]
- New config file framework (yet unused) [Sven]
- Fixes to the Undo and PixelRegion code [Kelly]
- Optimization and cleanup of the paint-funcs [Daniel]
- Message proofreading [Bex]
- Most stuff compiles with -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED [Mitch]
- More stuff not mentioned here (see the ChangeLog)
Other Contributors:
Guillermo S. Romero, David Neary, David Odin, Roger Leigh,
Ville P<>tsi.
Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.1
=================================
- Follow GTK+-2.0 and Pango API changes [Yosh, Mitch, Sven]
- Added Color Erase paint mode [Simon Budig]
- Proofreading of messages [Rebecca Walter]
- Improvements to container views [Mitch]
- Improved tool options [Mitch]
- Made --no-interface mode work without calling gtk_init() [Mitch]
- Reworked paint_funcs [Daniel Egger]
- Added SF-DIRNAME script-fu parameter [Matteo Nastasi]
- Lots of internal cleanups [Mitch, Sven]
- More stuff not mentioned here (see the ChangeLog)
Other Contributors:
Guillermo S. Romero, David Neary
Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.0
=================================
- Ported almost everything to the GTK+-2.0 API. Check the file INSTALL
to learn what libraries we require in detail.
- Cleaned up the core a lot. The app directory is now broken up into
subdirectories that define subsystems with defined dependencies.
- Seperated GUI from core functionality in almost all places.
- The core object system does not depend on GTK+ any more.
- Rewrote large parts of the user interface in a more generic way.
- Started to rewrite the text tool (completely broken at the moment)
- Lots of changes in the tool system. All paint tool PDB wrappers are
broken at the moment.
- Split up libgimp and libgimpui in a bunch of smaller utility
libraries for plug-ins and the core.
- Removed GIMP 1.0 compatibility wrappers.
- Lots of stuff not mentioned here. See the file ChangeLog for more info.