gimp/NEWS

            The GNU Image Manipulation Program Version 1.3
                          A Colorspace Odyssey


GIMP 1.3 is the development branch of The GIMP. Here's where the
development takes place on the road to the next stable release
dubbed GIMP 1.4.


Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.6
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- 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]
- Started framework for tools loaded as modules or plug-ins [Nathan]
- Bugfixes
- More stuff not mentioned here (see the ChangeLog)

Other contributors:
  Manish Singh, Zbigniew Chyla, OEyvind Kolaas, Nick Lamb


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]
- New widgets to choose from enum values [Sven]
- Enum cleanups [Yosh, Sven]
- Resizeable docks [Mitch]
- Parse unitrc and document history using GScanner [Mitch] 
- Fixes for build on Win32 [Hans]
- Treeviewified user installation dialog [Yosh]
- Bugfixes
- More stuff not mentioned here (see the ChangeLog)

Other Contributors:
  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
=================================
- Most of the code is free of deprecated GTK+ calls now [Mitch, Yosh, Sven]
- More use of stock icons [Sven, Mitch]
- 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
- 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.