GIMP Development

This site tries to provide useful information for GIMP developers. No matter if you are into plug-in development or want to dive into the internals of the GIMP core, you should find your way from here.

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The list below shows the latest news about GIMP development.

2008-03-23 23:00 UTC

Week #12 (march 17 - march 23)

Announcements

[SOC] GIMP has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2008. Joao S. O. Bueno is the contact person this year, and project ideas are being gathered on the wiki.

[MEET] The 3rd edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting will take place in May, 8th to 11th, in Wrocław, Poland. GIMP developers will discuss face to face again and will meet GIMP users, so be sure to join the fun!

Bugs fixed

[MISC] use xdg-open instead of calling firefox directly : Sven Neumann changed the default web-browser to xdg-open.

[TOOL] Curves tool does not really remember curve type between uses : Sven Neumann set the curve type to the type of the initial curve, which is SMOOTH.

New features and work in progress

[PLUG-IN] Sven Neumann added a sanity check for large image saved as GIF saves to the wrong size , and aborts when the image is too large.

[UI] Michael Natterer started to implement the "no image open" window as a display without image (a view with NULL model). The toolbox menu is being removed.

2008-03-16 23:00 UTC

Week #11 (march 10 - march 16)

Bugs fixed

[PLUG-IN] TIFF plug-in should set filename when importing a single image from a multi-image TIFF : Sven Neumann set a filename on the image, even when not all images are imported as layers.

New features and work in progress

[PLUG-IN] Sven Neumann is writing a new URI plug-in based on GIO/GVfs.

2008-03-09 23:00 UTC

Week #10 (march 3 - march 9)

Bugs fixed

[MISC] Selection empties after cut : Sven Neumann cleared the selection after cutting it as gimp_selection_extract() doesn't do this any longer.

[TOOL] adjustable opacity in the transform tool preview : Tom Lechner wrote a patch to make the transform preview take the layer opacity into account, and Sven Neumann reworked and applied it. See also Layer opacity and combine modes are not used in transform previews .

[TOOL] some tool options not being saved or restored for some tools : Michael Natterer fixed he mishandling of the "antialias" GParamSpec.

2008-03-02 23:00 UTC

Week #9 (february 25 - march 2)

Announcements

[RELEASE] Sven Neumann announced GIMP 2.4.5, a bug-fix release in the stable series.

Bugs fixed

[TOOL] Curves Preview Does Not Working When Clicked : Sven Neumann recalculated the curve before updating the preview in the button-press handler for smooth curves.

[API] Perspective transformation does no inverse transformation : Sven Neumann passed the direction parameter down to gimp_drawable_transform_tiles_affine() instead of hardcoding it to GIMP_TRANSFORM_FORWARD.

New features and work in progress

[PLUG-IN] add Page Setup menu entry : Sven Neumann added the code to store the page setup information in an image parasite. What remains to be done is getting rid of the error message when the non-existant temporary procedure is called, which depends on bug #344818.

[SCRIPT-FU] LightningIsMyName proposed some patches for Alpha as logo: frosty error message , and Kevin Cozens commited one.

[TOOL] Alexia Death provided a patch to handle event filtering early along with dynamics calculation which corrects filter according to zoom level to avoid tracking issues, and Sven Neumann applied it.