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GNU Image Manipulation Program
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Development Branch
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This is the development branch of GIMP. Here's where all the shiny
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new stuff is being done that will one day be released as GIMP 2.4.
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Changes in GIMP 2.3.8
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- added new tile primitive Triangle to Mosaic plug-in
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- speed up Gaussian Blur plug-in
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- suppress redundant progress updates from plug-ins
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- changed some gimprc and sessionrc default values
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- do not focus transform tool dialogs on map
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- renamed Magnify tool to Zoom tool and added some missing tool shortcuts
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- added a submenu with recently used plug-ins to the Filters menu
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- fixed look-up table used for Contrast adjustments
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- improved the user interface of the Animation Playback plug-in
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- added framework for describing menu entries in the statusbar
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- added lots of helpful blurbs to procedures and core actions
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- remove color from the Watercolor selector if Shift is being pressed
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- bug fixes and code cleanup
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Changes in GIMP 2.3.7
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- depend on GTK+ 2.8, use some of the new features
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- removed workarounds for problems in GTK+ 2.6
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- moved Align Visible Layers to the Image menu
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- started to add a new vectors PDB API
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- make it more obvious that docks can be rearranged by drag and drop
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- modified the behaviour of the Tab key
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- added --license command-line option
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- improved dither matrix for RGB->Indexed conversion
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- added PDB API to stroke with any paint method
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- gave some plug-ins more sensible names
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- keep settings of brush/pattern/font/... button popups across sessions
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- reduced number of memory allocations by declaring some strings as static
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- some improvements to the plug-in preview widgets
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- added links to important topics in the user manual
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- let the configure script display a summary of options
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- bug fixes and code cleanup
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Changes in GIMP 2.3.6
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- even faster application startup
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- binary relocatibility on Linux by means of binreloc
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- be more verbose when being asked for it
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- select color index when picking from an indexed drawable
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- allow to migrate windows between displays
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- mouse-wheel scrolling and zooming in plug-in previews
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- added keyboard shortcuts ([ and ]) for changing the brush radius
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- improved Oilify plug-in
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- made the IWarp plug-in preview resizeable
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- added alignment mode for cloning from a fixed location source
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- completed core/ui separation of paint tools and paint methods
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- bug fixes and code cleanup
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Changes in GIMP 2.3.5
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- optionally add jitter to paint strokes
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- implemented Snap to Path
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- added PDB API to access the Image Grid
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- ease access to Keyboard Shortcuts editor
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- optimizations to the Tile Cache and Undo/Redo implementations
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- more work on the Buffer PDB API
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- bug fixes to the new zoomable plug-in previews
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- optimization of the SIOX algorithm
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- menu reorganisation in the Toolbox menu
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- export "Open As Layer" to the PDB as file-load-layer
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- added keyboard control for the Curves tool
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- load and save embedded ICC profiles from/to PNG images
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- improved appearance of some tool icons on dark background
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- added PDB API to get and set path visibility
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- let data editors follow the active brush, palette and gradient (optional)
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- some rearrangements in the new toplevel Colors menu
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- speed up reloading of data files
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- allow to copy the location of data files to the clipboard
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- allow to disable saving of the document history in the preferences
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- slightly faster application startup
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- more use of ngettext for plural forms
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- bug fixes and code cleanup
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Changes in GIMP 2.3.4
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- allow plug-ins and scripts to register menu entries in the <Brushes>,
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<Gradients>, <Palettes>, <Patterns> and <Fonts> menus
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- replaced Selection to Brush/Pattern scripts with scripts that paste
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a new brush/pattern from the content of the clipboard
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- allow to easily close all opened images
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- added a first version of a Print plug-in using libgnomeprint
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- improved Sphere Designer plug-in
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- improved Compose plug-in
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- added a zoomable preview widget for plug-ins
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- implement copy and paste of paths as SVG
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- use new stock icons introduced with GTK+ 2.6
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- allow to zoom in/out using the +/- keys on the numerical keypad
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- make it easier to drop dockables below the toolbox
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- set plug-in dialogs transient to the window they have been called from
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- added PDB function to obtain handles to the image and progress windows
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- export named buffers to the PDB
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- easier access to the popup menu in empty container views
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- use ngettext for plural forms
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- implement "Sample Merged" for the Clone tool
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- various Win32 fixes
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- fixed capitalization for better HIG compliance
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- use a descriptive verb instead of "OK" as button label in most dialogs
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- redone About dialog to be more informative
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- take the default unit from the locale settings
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- moved color-related tools and plug-ins to a new toplevel Colors menu
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- let the gnomevfs plug-in use GNOME authentication manager if available
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- rewritten Crop tool (work in progress)
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- added page selector to the Postscript Import plug-in
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- added preview to Checkerboard and Threshold Alpha plug-ins
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- more PDB procedure and parameter name canonicalization
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- touched up new path tool cursors and added one for the Join operation
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- bug fixes and code cleanup
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Changes in GIMP 2.3.3
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- improved new GimpPageSelector widget
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- minor improvements to the Procedure and Plug-In browsers
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- set alternative button order in some places that were missed earlier
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- added SIOX algorithm for foreground extraction
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- fixed most gcc 4.0 warnings
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- improved Cursor view and Sample Points functionality
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- prepared code and UI for more layer lock types
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- added new PDF import plug-in based on libpoppler
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- undeprecated and improved palette editor, added cursor navigation
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- show more information in the Image Properties dialog
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- added prototype of SIOX foreground selection tool
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- fixed build of MMX code on gcc 4.0
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- moved procedure browser to libgimpwidgets as GimpProcBrowserDialog
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- canonicalize PDB procedure and parameter names
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- use the coefficients from the sRGB spec when calculating luminance
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- allow to remove alpha channel from a layer
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- added more different cursors for the paths tool
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- bug fixes and code cleanup
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Changes in GIMP 2.3.2
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- more standard way of dealing with translation of the startup tips
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- allow to use the selected font in the text tool's text editor
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- some minor UI changes for HIG compliance
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- redid the framework that deals with installing desktop files
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- started to reorganize menus, mainly plug-ins and scripts
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- renamed "Scatter RGB" and "Scatter HSV" to "RGB Noise" and "HSV Noise"
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- allow to clear the document history
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- don't normalize the result in the Laplace plug-in (bug #306874)
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- ported FractalExplorer GUI to GtkTreeView, getting rid of the last
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XPM icons that were being used
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- added an option to Motion Blur to blur outwards
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- added support for the proposed ICC Profiles In X Specification
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- added new widget GimpEnumLabel to libgimpwidgets
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- let the lcms display filter module show information about the used
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color profiles
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- improved drawing of the brush outline
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- fixed build of Python language binding on Win32
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- allow plug-ins to access the user's color management configuration
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- added new widget GimpPageSelector to libgimpwidgets
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- reenabled the Debug menu
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- load and save ICC color profiles from/to JPEG images
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- bug fixes and code cleanup
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Changes in GIMP 2.3.1
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- allow to copy and paste SVG between GIMP and other applications
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- added a utility for testing and debugging clipboard operations
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- more work on the new vectors PDB API
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- made screen edges active in the image display in fullscreen mode
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- made file and color selection dialogs transient to their parent windows
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- moved browser widget from Procedure Browser plug-in to libgimpwidgets
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- allow more search types in the Procedure Browser
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- reduced size of the Colors dockable by moving the hex entry down
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- added object properties to GimpColorArea and GimpColorButton
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- changed default for RGB->Indexed conversion to not to any dithering
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- allow to paste a new image using Ctrl-V on the toolbox
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- show previews of dash presets in Stroke Options dialog
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- Escape key cancels the window selection in the Screenshot plug-in
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- allow to operate the Brightness Contrast tool by clicking and dragging
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on the canvas
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- improved Sample Points dockable
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- added first draft of new align tool
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- turned image and drawable combo boxes in libgimpui into real widgets
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- further improved Python bindings
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- nicer DND icons for viewables
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- allow to hide the button-bar found at the bottom of most dockables
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- turned font selection in libgimpui into a real widget
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- added support for BMP files with alpha channel (RGBA)
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- bug fixes and code cleanup
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Changes in GIMP 2.3.0
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- added Recompose plug-in
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- added rectangle tool in GFig plug-in
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- improved palette editor color DND
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- improved EXIF handling in JPEG plug-in
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- smoother autoscrolling in image display
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- added Snap to Canvas Border and Snap to Path (yet unimplemented)
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- added previews to Mosaic, Pixelize and Sparkle plug-ins
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- added Lanczos interpolation method
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- added Open as Image menu entries to brushes and patterns dialogs
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- improved drag-n-drop of drawables within GIMP
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- added a prototype of a new rectangular select tool
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- moved a bunch of enums from core into libgimpbase
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- moved GimpConfig functionality from core into libgimpconfig
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- moved GimpEnumStore and GimpEnumComboBox to libgimpwidgets
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- moved convenience constructors for property views to libgimpwidgets
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- ported ImageMap plug-in to action based menus.
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- first steps towards color management
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- use GOptionContext for command-line parsing
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- added a gnome-vfs backend for the uri plug-in (former url plug-in)
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- prepared code for accessing remote files in the file-chooser
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- let all dialogs obey the gtk-alternative-button-order setting
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- extended GimpProgress PDB API
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- improved file type handling in file save dialog
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- resurrected threaded pixel processor and enable it by default
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- parallelized a few more internal functions
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- speed up gradient dithering
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- improved PSD save plug-in
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- improved Python bindings
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- allow to resize layers with the image
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- allow to control letter spacing in the text tool
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- added path-on-path functionality, use it to implement Text on Path
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- improved gradient editor
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- allow to import paths from a string
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- ported all code to gstdio wrappers
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- added infrastructure for color sample points
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- added first draft of a metadata editor plug-in
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- speed up burn compositing function
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- added Altivec versions of some compositing functions
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- added PDB API to control the number of columns in a palette
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- allow to control hue overlap in Hue-Saturation tool
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- added a PDB API to register menu branches
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- added missing mnemonics
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- improved Screenshot plug-in
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- allow to drag brushes/patterns/gradients... to the selectors in Script-Fu
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- allow to save images by dragging them to a filemanager that supports the
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XDS protocol
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- optimizations in the Color Deficiency display filter
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- transfer the clipboard content to a clipboard manager on exit
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- moved cursor info out of the Info window into a dockable
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- moved remaining bits of the Info Window to a new Image Properties dialog
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- build and install gimp-console by default
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- allow to drag and drop image data into GIMP
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- use the statusbar more to display hints and info about the tool state
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- resurrected --no-data functionality
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- zoom to the cursor position instead of the display center
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- some improvements to the Helpbrowser plug-in
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- load PS brushes in the .abr format
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- allow to choose between different algorithms for Desaturate
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- added thumbnail loader to Winicon plug-in
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- improved configuration of input controllers
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- added an option to make the dock windows transient to the active image display
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- lots of code cleanup and bug-fixes
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