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THIS IS A PREVIEW RELEASE FOR TESTING PURPOSES
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This is a preview release of GIMP 2.2 which will replace GIMP 2.0 as
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the stable GIMP. This is not yet the final release but it should have
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all the features that 2.2.0 will have. This code hasn't seen a lot of
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testing yet so there are certainly bugs. If you find any, make sure
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you report them at bugzilla.gnome.org (after checking that it isn't
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reported already).
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Please do not install this pre-releae of GIMP 2.2 into the same prefix
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as GIMP 2.0. It would overwrite most of the GIMP 2.0 installation. To
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install in parallel to 2.0, please use a different prefix which is not
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in your default library search path. If you wish to replace GIMP 2.0
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with this pre-release, then please remove the GIMP 2.0 installation
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before installing this software.
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The GIMP 2.2 plug-in API is fully backward compatible to GIMP 2.0.
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Plug-ins for GIMP 2.0 should continue to work and don't need to be
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recompiled. We do however hope that plug-in authors will update their
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plug-ins for GIMP 2.2 and adapt the GUI changes we did with this
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version.
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It might turn out that we have to do some late changes to the newly
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added API before the final 2.2.0 release, so don't consider the API
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strictly frozen yet. The API is however guaranteed to be backward
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compatible (source and binary) with the GIMP 2.0 API. If you find that
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your 2.0 plug-in break when used with the GIMP 2.2 libraries, or if
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you cannot compile a GIMP 2.0 plug-in against the GIMP 2.2 header
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files, please report that as a bug.
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If you want to hack on The GIMP, please read the file HACKING. For
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detailed installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
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1. Web Resources
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The GIMP's home page is at:
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http://www.gimp.org/
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Please be sure to visit this site for information, documentation,
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tutorials, news, etc. All things GIMP-ish are available from there.
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The automated plug-in registry is located at:
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http://registry.gimp.org/
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There you can get the latest versions of plug-ins, using a convenient
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forms-based interface.
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The latest version of The GIMP can be found at:
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http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
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2. Mailing Lists
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We have several mailing lists dedicated to GIMP user and development
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discussion. There is more info at
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https://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/<listname>
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with <listname> replaced by "gimp-announce", "gimp-user", "gimp-win-users"
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or "gimp-developer" (without the quotes, of course) depending on the list
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you want to subscribe to. Links to the mailing list archives can be
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found at the same addresses as given above.
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Gimp-announce is a low-traffic list with announcements about new
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releases of GIMP and plug-ins. Gimp-user is a mailing list dedicated
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to user problems, hints and tips, discussion of cool effects, etc.
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Gimp-developer is oriented to GIMP core and plug-in developers. Most
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people will only want to be subscribed to gimp-user. If you want to
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help develop The GIMP, the gimp-developer mailing list is a good
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starting point.
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There is also a mailing list, "gimpwin-users", dedicated to users of the
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Win32 port. To subscribe, send an empty message to
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gimpwin-users-subscribe@egroups.com
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You can also use the web interface at
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http://www.egroups.com/group/gimpwin-users/. Note that as this mailing
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list is hosted on egroups.com, the messages from the list contain
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relatively unintrusive and easily ignored advertisements at the
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end. But if you are absolutely allergic to ads, don't subscribe.
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3. IRC
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And finally, for the real junkies, there is an IRC channel devoted to
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the GIMP. On Byxnet (a private mostly-GIMP network) there is #gimp.
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Many of the developers hang out there. One of the Byxnet servers are:
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irc.gimp.org:6667
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4. Customizing
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The look of GIMP's interface can be customized like any other GTK app
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by editing the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file or by using "themes" (ready-made
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customizations). For downloadable themes and further details, see
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http://gtk.themes.org. Additionally, GIMP reads ~/.gimp-2.2/gtkrc so
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you can have settings that only apply to The GIMP.
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Included is a set of keybindings similar to those in Adobe Photoshop.
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You can find them in the ps-menurc file. To use them, copy this file
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to ~/.gimp-2.2/menurc. You can also manually change the keybindings to
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any of your choice by editing ~/.gimp-2.2/menurc.
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Have fun,
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Spencer Kimball
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Peter Mattis
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Federico Mena
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Manish Singh
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Sven Neumann
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Michael Natterer
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Dave Neary
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