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GNU Image Manipulation Program
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Development Branch
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This is the unstable development branch of GIMP. Here we are working
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towards the next stable release, which will be GIMP 2.8.
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Changes in GIMP 2.7.1
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UI:
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- Add "lock content" button to the layers, channels and paths dialogs,
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make the lock buttons more compact
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- Refuse to edit locked items
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- Add support for layer groups
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- Improve internals and GUI of the save/export functionality
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- Move the shortcut dialog's "clear" button into the entry
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- Clean up UI code by introducing GimpDockWindow and GimpImageWindow
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classes
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- Support multi-column dock windows
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- Get rid of docking bars, use highlights in existing widget hierarchy instead
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- Remove toolbox-window-hint gimprc setting and use dock-window-hint
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for both toolbox and docks instead
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- Move GimpDock::default-height style property to GimpDockWindow
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- Polish save+export path-part precedence rules
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- Merge the GSoC 2009 Advanced GUI for Brush Dynamics project
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- Default to non-fixed-aspect in Canvas Size dialog
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- Add a still incomplete and Single-window mode
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- Have an Export button, not Save, in export dialogs
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- Improve Free Select Tool handle highlightning
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- Support changing user interface language from preferences
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- Update ps-menurc with PS CS4 keyboard shortcuts
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- Reduce spacing around canvas and use it for the canvas itself
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- Put name of active dockables in dock window titles
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- Don't have Toolbox in list of Recently Closed Docks, handle that
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directly in the Windows menu
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- Support selecting and tagging multiple objects in resource lists
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- Improve on-canvas text editing and text attribute setting
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- Add GimpContainerTreeStore and use it in all GtkTreeStore based views
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- Add a new default "automatic" tab style that makes sure dockable tabs
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always show as much detail as possible
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- Remove the dockable title bar and add the menu arrow button next to the
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notebook tabs
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- Add an icon for the desaturate tool
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- Add 'Rule of fifths' crop guide overlay
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- Make Alt+Click on layers not affecting active layer
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Core:
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- Make all GimpItems lockable so their contents can't be changed
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- Make more sense when naming imported layers
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- Make group layers work except for layer masks and save them in
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the XCF
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- Change GimpProjectable::update to GimpProjectable:invalidate
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- Make sure we don't mix font backends (and crash) by explicitely
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asking for FT/Fontconfig backends
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- Move members of GimpObject to a private struct
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- gimp_object_get_name() takes a gconstpointer now, remove casts
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from all callers
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- Let drawables connect to their floating selection's "update" signal
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instead of letting the image do this job
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- Fix brush rotation artifacts at even 90 degree rotation
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- Don't leak shared tile memory on Solaris
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- Add a PDB procedure to access a text layer's markup
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- Remove legacy cruft from pdbgen and make sure number ranges are correct
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- Move all image creation functions to a common file
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- Add translation context to all undo descriptions
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GEGL:
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- Make sure all nodes are added to their resp. graphs
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- Use GEGL for layer scaling if use-gegl is TRUE
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Plug-ins:
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- Updated script-fu's scheme to latest upstream fixes
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- Don't store image-specific print settings globally
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- Add fundamental OpenRaster (.ora) import and export support
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- Add RGB565 support to the csource plug-in
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Data:
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- Add texture/grunge brushes made by Johannes Engelhardt
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Developer documentation:
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- Explain GimpContext
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- Add SVG graphic with GIMP application core module dependencies
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- Add a schedule for 2.8 development
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Source and build system:
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- Add more code documentation
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- Clean up subsystem linking dependencies in app/
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- Add unit testing framework in app/tests/ and some basic tests,
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including basic UI tests and XCF tests
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- Tentatively introduce usage of using Glade + GtkBuilder
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- Depend on GLib 2.24.0 and GTK+ 2.20.0
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- Add git commit hash in --verbose --version output
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- Don't version control gtk-doc.m4, get it from gtkdocize
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- Add GimpObject tracking code
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- Plug memory leaks
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- Lots of bug fixes and cleanup
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- Lots of translation updates
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Changes in GIMP 2.7.0
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UI:
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- Change the Text Tool to perform text editing on-canvas (GSoC 2008)
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and add the ability to mix different text styles in the same layer
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- Add support for tagging GIMP resources such as brushes and allow
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filtering based on these tags (GSoC 2008)
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- Separate the activies of saving an image and exporting it, there is
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now an 'File->Export...' for example
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- Port file plug-ins to new export API which gets rid of many
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annoying export dialogs
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- Add a simple parser to size entry widgets, images can be scaled
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to e.g. "50%" or "2 * 37px + 10in"
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- Arrange layer modes into more logical and useful groups
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- Added support for rotation of brushes
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- Make the Pointer dockable show information about selection position
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and size
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- Get rid of the Tools dockable and move toolbox configuration to
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Preferences
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- Allow closing the toolbox without closing the whole application
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- Add status bar feedback for keyboard changes to brush paramaters
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- Add diagonal guides to the Crop Tool
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- New docks are created at the pointer position
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- Add support for printing crop marks for images
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- Move 'Text along path' from tool options to text context menu
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- Change default shortcuts for "Shrink Wrap" and "Fit in Window" to
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Ctrl+R and Ctrl+Shift+R respectively since the previous shortcuts
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are now used for the save+export feature
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- Make Alt+Click on layers in Layers dockable create a selection from
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the layer
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- Allow to specify written language in the Text Tool
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- Support custom mapping curves for input device properties like "Pressure"
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- New desktop launcher icon
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- Use Ctrl+J and Ctrl+Shift+J for 'Shrink Wrap' and 'Fit Image in
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Window' to avoid conflict with Ctrl+Shift+R for 'Show Rulers'
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- Add 'Windows→Hide docks' menu item that does what 'Tab' does and also displays
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it's state. Make the state persistent across sessions, too.
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- Make dock window title separators translatable
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Plug-ins:
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- Map the 'Linear Dodge' layer mode in PSD files to the 'Addition'
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layer mode in GIMP
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- Add JPEG2000 load plug-in
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- Add X11 mouse cursor plug-in
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- Add support for loading 16bit (RGB565) raw data
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- Add palette exporter for CSS, PHP, Python, txt and Java, accessed
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through palette context menu
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- Add plug-in API for getting image URI, for manipulating size of
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text layers, for getting and setting text layer hint, and for
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unified export dialog appearance
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- Add an 'As Animation' toggle to the GIF export options
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- Add 'active_vectors' getsetter to Python 'gimp.Image'
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Data:
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- Add large variants of round brushes and remove duplicate and
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useless brushes
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- Add "FG to BG (Hardedge)" gradient
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GEGL:
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- Port the projection code, the code that composes a single image
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from a stack of layers, to GEGL
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- Port layer modes to GEGL
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- Port the floating selection code to GEGL
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- Refactor the layer stack code to prepare for layer groups later
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- Prepare better and more intuitive handling of the floating
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selection
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- Add File->Debug->Show Image Graph that show the GEGL graph of an
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image
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- Allow to benchmark projection performance with
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File->Debug->Benchmark Projection
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- When using GEGL for the projection, use CIELCH instead of HSV/HSL
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for color based layer modes
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Core:
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- Make painting strokes Catmull-Rom Spline interpolated
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- Add support for arbitrary affine transforms of brushes
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- Add support for brush dynamics to depend on tilt
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- Add aspect ratio to brush dynamics
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- Add infrastructure to soon support vector layers (GSoC 2006)
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- Rearrange legacy layer mode code to increase maintainability
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- Drop support for the obsolete GnomeVFS file-uri backend
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- Allow to dump keyboard shortucts ith File->Debug->Dump Keyboard
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Shortcuts
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- Prepare data structures for layer groups
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- Remove gimprc setting "menu-mnemonics",
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"GtkSettings:gtk-enable-mnemonics" shall be used instead
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- Remove "transient-docks" gimprc setting, the 'Utility window' hint
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and a sane window manager does a better job
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- Remove "web-browser" gimprc setting and use gtk_show_uri() instead
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General:
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- Changed licence to (L)GPLv3+
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- Use the automake 1.11 feature 'silent build rules' by default
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- Lots of bug fixes and cleanup
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