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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. Sometime this summer the next stable GIMP release,
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GIMP 2.2, will emerge out of this.
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Overview of Changes since 2.0
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GIMP 2.1 includes the following enhancements:
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- Major user interface improvements
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* Work has begun to make the GIMP user interface comply better with
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the GNOME HIG. This is an ongoing effort and the interface is still
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inconsistent at the moment.
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* Users are now allowed to clear the undo history.
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* Pixels are now considered image units; this simplifies the handling of
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units.
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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 dialogs.
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+ includes port of menus to GtkUIManager, which creates all core menus
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from XML files at runtime. This means that menu items can be rearranged
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by users simply by editing these files.
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+ uses a global accelerator table in all docks and image windows. This
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means that a hotkey will do the same thing regardless of which dock
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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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+ 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 the WM
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supports this hint)
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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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* The obsolete AlienMap and GIcon plug-ins were removed. AlienMap 2 does
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everything than AlienMap did, and the GIMP-specific GIcon format has not
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been used by anything for quites some time now.
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* A plug-in to load and save windows icon files has been added.
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