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GIMP 2.2.0 Released

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2004-12-19 10:40. GIMP
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The GIMP developers are proud to announce the availability of version 2.2.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. About nine months after version 2.0 hit the road, another development cycle has been completed and a new stable GIMP is coming to your desktop.

Please read the release notes for further information.

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gtk

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-12-21 04:50.

Although I haven't seen this mentionned in the release notes, I think it is useful to give the following piece of advice: An upgrade to gtk 2.4.14 makes gimp 2.2 feel much faster, since several enhancements to gtk were done due to the work of gimp developers. I would recommend to upgrade.

oliv.

ACK

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-12-21 11:56.

Updating to GLib 2.4.8 and GTK+ 2.4.14 is a must for using GIMP 2.2. Even better yet, update to GTK+ 2.6.0 for typeahead in treeviews and keynav in the file chooser.

Great Release!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2004-12-20 23:21.

But the Gimp is still lacking the most important feature of all:
A Good, detailed and well-planned Roadmap!
Gimp devs need to have an idea of where they are going or should go for a new version.
This is what the Inkscape guys have done (http://www.inkscape.org/roadmap.php), and it's worked great for them :D

Roadmap

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-12-21 05:39.

Can't you just give them a break? They've just finished the 2.2 version and announced that they are making plans for the future that will be announced soon. I guess you will see a roadmap after the GIMP meeting at 21C3.

16-bits colors?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2004-12-20 08:23.

What's the current status of 16-bits colors support?

RE: 16-bits colors?

Submitted by Rogz on Mon, 2004-12-20 08:27.

I may be totally wrong about this and if I am, someone please correct me, but I'm under the impression that 16-bit colors support won't happen until Gimp switches to use Gegl as backend.

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RE: 16-bits colors?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-12-21 06:21.

And that is when? Gimp 2.4? 3.0? Is there a tentative timeline?

Timeline?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-12-21 12:02.

GIMP is a volunteers project. You can't have both, a timeline and a feature list. Either the releases are feature-driven, then there can't be a timeline. Or the releases are fixed in time. Then they will contain the features that make it into the CVS tree until the date of the feature freeze arrives.

tentative plan

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-12-21 08:49.

This is a tentative plan, nothing final yet:

GIMP 2.4 will bring you color management but not higher color depths. While GIMP 2.4 (which should be released in a couple of months already) is being worked on, GEGL will be brought to a state where it becomes useable for GIMP. Details will be discussed at 21C3 and on the gimp-developer mailing list.

My guess is _3.0_ Gegl dev

Submitted by Rogz on Tue, 2004-12-21 07:12.

My guess is _3.0_

Gegl development was not as high priority as getting gimp-2.2 ready for the masses and most of the people hacking on gegl are the same people who gave us gimp (again someone correct me if I'm wrong).

So, I guess we'll have to wait for a timeline to appear on gimp.org, or, in the meantime go to gegl.org and start working on some of the tasks listed there.

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256 colors are plenty enough

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2004-12-20 09:52.

256 colors are plenty enough for me... I don't need more colors.

8bits per color channel is not enough

Submitted by dmytro on Mon, 2004-12-20 21:25.

Human eye can distinguish perhaps about 1000 different shades of gray. More importantly, gimp is not just for viewing by also for manipulating images. If an image region is too dark and we brighten it eight times, then only 5bits per color channel will remain.

1000? I was always under th

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-12-21 07:58.

1000? I was always under the impression 24-bit color was truecolor because the human eye can only distinguish about 256 shades of each of the 3 primary colors. If so how can 1000 shades of grey be distinguished yet only about 256 or red green or blue?

The eye is more sensitive to

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2004-12-24 06:57.

The eye is more sensitive to light and dark, rather than colour, so it makes sense that you could distinguish more shades of grey than you could of the primary colours. How many shades, I don't know, but I'm sure it's more than 256.

Call me a loony, an idiot or

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-12-22 15:43.

Call me a loony, an idiot or whatever. I've heard it exists like 5 million color and shades. How many we can distinguish is hard for me to tell, but 256 is by no means right. You can see the difference between 256 grayshades and lets say 1000. But you cant of course truly see where the shades is different in the colormap....wonder if that made sense. ;)

Take it easy..

Submitted by isak on Tue, 2004-12-21 06:06.

I think the guy was joking :-) But interesting post nontheless...

Great!

Submitted by robsta on Mon, 2004-12-20 06:08.

But why did OOo get a link in http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/WhatsNew2 while Abiword didn't?

- rob

It's a Wiki

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-12-21 05:40.

It's a Wiki, feel free to change it.

Because

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2004-12-20 07:50.

You haven't fixed it yet. :-)