Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)
After the 2.10 release arrives, the next major version will be 3.0. According to the roadmap, the goal for 3.0 will be delivering support for Gtk+ 3, a major new version of the underlying widget toolkit that is used to build the GIMP’s interface. The other major feature item included in the roadmap for version 3.0 is pervasive high bit-depth support, a major feature that will made possible by the GEGL transition."
Posted May 7, 2012 20:52 UTC (Mon)
by qubit (guest, #57802)
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Now where's that donation page again...
Posted May 7, 2012 22:46 UTC (Mon)
by coriordan (guest, #7544)
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...and all the small improvements that come from a 4-year release cycle.
The big feature I've been waiting for is non-destructive editing, but that's probably for a later release. I can wait.
On the negative side, the notes say that tablet support (such as wacom) might be broken in 2.8. Reading the info at the end of the release notes, it looks like installing 2.8 alongside 2.6 would require more tinkering than I have time for right now.
Posted May 8, 2012 6:30 UTC (Tue)
by eduperez (guest, #11232)
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I have a Wacom tablet, which I use intensively in GIMP-2.8, and have not found any issue so far; perhaps some models work, and mine is one of them, or perhaps there is some missing feature that I never tried to use.
Posted May 8, 2012 10:45 UTC (Tue)
by coriordan (guest, #7544)
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Have you (or others here) encountered that problem?
(I use a Wacom Bamboo "CTH-460")
Posted May 8, 2012 11:02 UTC (Tue)
by halla (subscriber, #14185)
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(I should compile gimp, of course, just to track its progress but gimp always needs a newer glib or gtk than I have, so that's why I only checked the rc.)
Posted May 8, 2012 14:13 UTC (Tue)
by coriordan (guest, #7544)
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I also found a post saying that someone is working on packaging gimp 2.8 for Debian unstable, so I'll wait for that. I can live without pressure sensitivity anyway.
Posted May 9, 2012 6:07 UTC (Wed)
by eduperez (guest, #11232)
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I own a "Wacom Pen & Touch" (medium size, don't know the exact model number) and can confirm that pressure sensitivity works flawlessly on Fedora 16.
Posted May 8, 2012 5:39 UTC (Tue)
by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
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Posted May 8, 2012 15:04 UTC (Tue)
by Mithrandir (guest, #3031)
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Posted May 8, 2012 15:23 UTC (Tue)
by mikachu (guest, #5333)
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Posted May 8, 2012 15:13 UTC (Tue)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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Posted May 8, 2012 14:00 UTC (Tue)
by jpnp (guest, #63341)
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http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/gimp-2.8-release...
Posted May 11, 2012 3:53 UTC (Fri)
by duffy (guest, #31787)
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Posted May 9, 2012 15:43 UTC (Wed)
by faheem (guest, #47574)
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Posted May 9, 2012 15:59 UTC (Wed)
by jake (editor, #205)
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Me too. It looks like ars underwent a redesign and that link seems to have been lost in the shuffle ... actually a quick check of other links seems to show those as 404 too ... and the search feature isn't working ... we'll have to wait and see how it all shakes out, I guess ...
jake
Posted May 9, 2012 19:52 UTC (Wed)
by johill (subscriber, #25196)
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Posted May 9, 2012 19:54 UTC (Wed)
by johill (subscriber, #25196)
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Per the roadmap, we finally have layer groups in the GIMP! This is one of the big "Photoshop-has-it" bullet points that my wacom-tablet-wielding friends would fire at me whenever the GIMP came up in conversation.
Layer Groups!
Other stuff!
* On-Canvas Text Editing
* Cage Transform Tool
* Brush System Improvements
Other stuff!
Excellent!
Excellent!
Excellent!
Excellent!
Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)
Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)
Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)
Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)
Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)
Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)
Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)
Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)
Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)
Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface (ars technica)