Also, for users on the Microsoft Windows platforms, an annoying oscillating switching between different input devices has been fixed, this should make using a tablet more reliable.
GIMP 2.8.20 Changelog:
- Core:
- Avoid D-Bus error message when built without D-Bus support
- fix OS X min required conditional in gimpimagewindow.c
- Saving to existing .xcf.bz and .xcf.gz files didn't truncate them and could lead to unnecessarily large files
- Text layer created by gimp-text-fontname doesn't respect border when resized
- avoid seeking when saving XCF files to prevent corruption with file network shares (fixed since 2014, but not mentioned in NEWS yet)
- GUI:
- Flow on Paint Dynamics editor dialog: the 'y' axis is indicating 'Rate' instead 'Flow'
- Vertical ruler shows artifacts if the status bar isn't showing
- Tablet stylus misbehaves when crossing the edge of a dock in multi-window-mode
- Disable the new "automatic window tabbing" feature introduced on macOS Sierra
- Improve the visiblity of slider handles with dark themes
- Make it harder to switch to renaming if selecting already selected items in resource lists
- Tools:
- make toggling to color picker mode of paint tools more robust
- Libgimp:
- call gimp_file_entry_set_filename() with filename encoding
- Windows Installer:
- Reduce the memory requirement when running the installer (has already been shipped in a 2.8.18 installer-only update)
- Ship an updated libcairo to fix GTK+ UI rendering problems, like missing palette border/bevel and shadowa under tab labels
- macOS DMG:
- Ship the Tango icon theme with the DMG for a complete set of icons
- fix the way mime data is copied into the bundle
- no longer copy Pango modules into the bundle
- prevent a crash caused by drag&drop on OSX by patching the included GTK+
- ship a patch for gettext to make sure the preferred UI language will be used
- Plug-ins:
- Prevent the Python console from closing by the Escape key
- Help browser does not launch on OS X
- Filter 'Edge Detect/Difference of Gaussians' returns empty image
- only use -xobjective-c for compile commands
- mkgen.pl: fix calls to write_file() routine to write to current directory
- When printing, the images are composed onto a white background to prevent printing a black box instead of a transaprent image
- Fix color visison deficiency display filters to apply gamma correction directly
- Updated Translations:
- Catalan
- Czech
- Danish
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Scottish Gaelic
- Spanish
- Swedish
- General:
- Bug fixes
Installation instructions:
Open terminal and insert command line...
| $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gimp |
Optional, to remove GIMP 2.8.20 and revert the changes, do:
| $ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge $ sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp |
No comments:
Post a Comment