Explaining in the intro that the reference is the code, and where to
find it.
Rather than writing uint32/64 for every offset, use "pointer" as a
proper and well defined basic data type, whose detailed description is
in the "BASIC CONCEPTS" section at the start of the file.
... for layer modes.
KDE developers asked me where the code was so that they could reproduce
actual algorithms in their XCF reader. This is obviously interesting
information to have around in our docs.
We should stop using MD5 sums altogether and push forward SHA256/SHA512
hash sums instead. The website is also being updated to display these in
favor of the deprecated MD5 sums.
We are most likely not going to remove previously computed MD5 sums, or
recompute SHA* hashes for older binaries, but at least we should stop
doing MD5 sums of any future binary.
Add new PDB group "drawable_edit" which has all procedures from the
"edit" group which are not cut/copy/paste.
The new group's procedures don't have opacity, paint_mode
etc. arguments but take them from the context instead. Unlike the old
gimp-edit-fill, gimp-drawable-edit-fill now uses the context's opacity
and paint_mode.
The new gimp-drawable-edit-gradient-fill procedure uses even more
context properties which are also newly added with this commit
(gradient_color_space, gradient_repeat_mode, gradient_reverse).
And some cleanup in context.pdb.
This is still WIP, nothing in the edit group is depcreated yet.
The upper text will be centered on the top quarter of the bottom quarter
of the splash image, whereas the bottom text will be centered on the
bottom quarter of the bottom quarter of the splash (unless the splash is
too small, in which case the double of the layout pixel extents will be
used). Basically don't use absolute pixel values anymore for
positionning. This should all be done relatively since there are
nowadays all kind of display size (and positionning the text 6 pixels to
the bottom, as it was done, may be ok on low density displays, yet will
look ugly on high density screens).
Also write this down in the splash requirements in the release howto so
that splash designers are aware that the bottom quarter of their image
will have to be adapted for printing text.
I create this file so that we can refer to it to know whether we can use
a OS-specific API, or if we want to know if we can safely bump a
dependency, etc.
Current splash is not right within these requirements. But that's all
right for this RC.
These requirements are meant to be followed from next release.
I completely forgot to rename the appstream file according to the new
ID. While doing so, I also make it a .in.in file, with initial
processing by the autotools. Indeed I need @GIMP_COMMAND@ to be replaced
by AC_CONFIG_FILES().
Finally I fix a badly closed XML tag (which reminds me I should always
test a commit, even when it's a simple non-C 1-liner change!).
Please don't forget to notify me too of an upcoming release. I need to
update the manifest (for stable releases at Flathub at least, since we
have not set the dev release process yet) and trigger a new build of our
flatpak.
Trying to manually read commits to acknowledge translators, designers,
developers, etc. is just ridiculous. Let's try to have a script doing
the work for us.
You use it like this:
- GIMP 2.9.8 stats: devel-docs/release-stats.sh GIMP_2_9_6 GIMP_2_9_8
- GIMP 2.10 stats: devel-docs/release-stats.sh GIMP_2_8_0
...of official binaries
Add this point right after "Announce on the GNOME I18N mailing list."
Also remove the "wait for mirrors" thing at the end, in a subsection
of that point we say "as fast as possible" and that contradicts each
other.
Move the "properly chilled beverage" to the end where i belongs
(or perhaps it belongs where the build starts...)
This will be a neat reminder for some of the hidden environment
variables helpful to debug GIMP in some cases, as well as some other
tricks, which we often have to tell people or even which we forget (or
don't even know sometimes) ourselves.
This will be less annoying to just remember to check this file if we
forget the name of some environment variable than to try and grep the
git log or the code.
If someone adds another environment variable which changes some behavior
of the code, please add it here. Also if you know some other helpful
tricks, share with all. Thanks.
I've made the download and home page of gimp-web as generic as possible
so that one will just have to update GIMP_VERSIONS in order to release a
new version. In particular, no boring editing of hardcoded versions in
html pages anymore.
Also adding an item to update the authors page as well (which is
generated so it's just a matter of moving a file).
Michael Natterer