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The GNU Image Manipulation Program Version 2.1
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This is the development branch of The GIMP. Here's where new features
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are being added. In a not too distant future the next stable GIMP
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release, GIMP 2.2, will emerge out of this.
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.1
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- Added support for loading patterns in formats supported by GdkPixbuf
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(most notably PNG and JPEG).
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- Use ARGB cursors when supported by the windowing system. Added nice
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new tool cursors.
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- Added previews to Solid Noise and Unsharp Mask plug-ins.
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- Improvements for painting with pressure-sensitive devices.
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- Added preview for transform tools.
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- Merged the Gaussian Blur plug-ins.
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- Simplified the Blur plug-in.
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- Reorganized the Preferences dialog.
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- Dispatch Enter, Return, Backspace and Delete key events to the tools
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and use them where it makes sense.
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- Some optimizations to the tile system, the gradient rendering and to
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the cubic interpolation routine.
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- Show the brush outline while painting.
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- Added an interface that allows to add controller modules. Such a module
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can dispatch events to The GIMP which are mapped to actions by a
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user-configurable mapping table. Added a mouse wheel controller and a
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generic linux input event controller module.
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Contributors:
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, Manish Singh, Philip Lafleur, Yeti,
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Dave Neary, Jakub Steiner, David Gowers, Geert Jordaens, William Skaggs,
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Henrik Brix Andersen, Simon Budig, lots of translators and the
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contributors that I accidentally missed...
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Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.0
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GIMP 2.1.0 includes the following enhancements over GIMP 2.0:
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- Major user interface improvements.
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* Large parts of the GIMP user interface have been changed to
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comply better with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. This is
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an ongoing effort and the interface may still be inconsistent in
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a few places.
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* Users are now allowed to clear the undo history.
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* The unit to be used for the rulers and the coordinates display is now
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a display property and can be changed in the statusbar of the image
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window.
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* New widgets and frameworks provided by GTK+ 2.4 are used; this means
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+ uses the new GtkFileChooser dialog, vastly improving the file
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dialogs.
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+ includes port of menus to GtkUIManager, which creates all core
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menus from XML files at runtime. This means that menu items can
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be rearranged by users simply by editing these files.
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+ uses a global accelerator table in all docks and image windows.
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This means that a hotkey will do the same thing regardless of
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which dock or image window you are using.
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+ adds replacement widgets based on GtkComboBox for most uses of
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GtkOptionMenu (GimpUnitMenu remains to be ported)
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+ adds GimpContainerEntry, a GtkEntry with completion based on
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the contents of a GimpContainer.
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+ makes the order and visibility of tools in the toolbox configurable
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+ allows keeping toolbox and dock windows above other windows (if
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the WM supports this hint)
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* The toolbox now has an optional preview of the active image.
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* The image window now accepts file/uri drops.
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- More internal cleanup and refactoring of the core object model.
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- The brush rendering code has been separated from the generic paint
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tool code. The ink tool is now a paint tool (it can do straight
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lines) and the new infrastructure allows to implement new kinds of
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paint methods like vector based painting.
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- Gradients can now be created, deleted, renamed and edited through
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the PDB.
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- Some changes to plug-ins.
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* Plug-ins can now register the same procedures in multiple places (the
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API to register menu entries has been changed in a backward-compatible
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fashion).
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* Plug-ins can now optionally register a menu icon.
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* File plug-ins can now register a mime-type.
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* All plug-in dialogs have been reviewed and changed to make them
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comply better with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
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* All plug-ins that need to access files use the new GtkFileChooser
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dialog.
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* The obsolete AlienMap and GIcon plug-ins were removed. AlienMap2
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does everything than AlienMap did, and the GIMP-specific GIcon format
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has not been used by anything for quite some time now.
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* A plug-in to load and save windows icon files has been added.
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Contributors:
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Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, Maurits Rijk, Manish Singh,
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Henrik Brix Andersen, Philip Lafleur, Raphael Quinet, Simon Budig,
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William Skaggs, Shlomi Fish, Kevin Cozens, Jakub Steiner, Dave Neary,
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Daniel Kobras, Jordi Gay, Yeti, Marco Munari, David Necas, Nils
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Philippsen, Soeren Wedel Nielsen, Joao S. O. Bueno, lots of translators
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and the contributors that I accidentally missed...
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