We are closing in on the GIMP 2.6 release and still the translation status looks rather bad. It would be nice if we could ship GIMP 2.6 with lots of complete translations. So here’s your chance to help.
If you want to help translating GIMP to your language, please get in contact with the GNOME translation [...]
For GIMP 2.6, we ported the GIMP help browser to WebKit. Works a lot better than the old version that was using gtkhtml2. The main advantage is probably that it works for online help. But WebKit has some other nice features also. Roman just added support for searching in the current page. Just press Ctrl-F [...]
One of the new features for GIMP 2.6, that I have been working on lately, is support for reading the user manual online. So far the user experience with the GIMP help system has sometimes been somewhat disappointing. The user asks for help and all she gets is an error message telling her that the [...]
In an effort to help people to waste more trees, I’ve spent some time lately to improve the GIMP Print plug-in. The main reason for starting with this is bug #480086. We’ve got lots of reports from users on the Windows platform that adjusting the paper size caused the Print dialog to become unresponsive. [...]
For GIMP 2.4 we dramatically improved the quality of the zoomed-out display. Much of this change was based on the introduction of a tile pyramid for the image projection. From a performance point of view this change helped for very large images as it reduces the need to access the image data. But overall it [...]
Two weeks ago I have been interviewed by Tim about GIMP. We talked for two hours, about the 2.4 release, history of GIMP, current development and our plans for the future. If you understand German and have enough time to waste to listen to a two hour podcast on GIMP, you may want to follow [...]
Started to play a bit with Cairo drawing in GIMP last night. It’s fun and while most changes didn’t have any visible effect, there’s a subtle change visible in the Layers dialog. Can you spot the difference? You may need a magnifying glass…
There is a lot more to do here. As a next step I [...]
We are still discussing the roadmap for GIMP 2.6, but we have branched directly after the 2.4.1 release and the first new feature landed in trunk:
The Screenshot plug-in can now capture an image of the mouse pointer and it will put it on an extra layer so that you can easily adjust it later. This [...]
Sometimes good things take a little longer. Version 2.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is finally out. Please check the release notes for details.
Now we are going to celebrate the release. And when things have settled a bit, we will discuss the roadmap for 2.6. All I can tell so far is that GIMP [...]
Yesterday I closed a rather longstanding enhancement request for GIMP by completing support for ICC color profiles. And today, thanks to the help of Martin Nordholts and Øyvind Kolås, we are close to closing another bug that existed from the very first days of GIMP development. But have a look yourself. This is a comparison [...]