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Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.99.12 to GIMP 2.99.14
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Core:
- The download button in About dialog when a new version is available
will now show the development download page when running unstable
branch code.
- The update check on macOS now uses native HTTPS-able API, so that we
don't have to wait for GIO to have HTTPS modules for macOS.
- The main process is now run as a GimpApp which is a new class derived from
GtkApplication. The main process of `gimp-console` on the other hand is a
`GimpConsoleApp` which is derived from GApplication. Both new classes share
a same GimpCoreApp interface. This is a main step for the GTK+3 port.
- Various improvements on awareness of multi-item selection across core
features. A notable fix is the preview when transforming multiple layers at
once (with various transform tools). Various actions are now multi-drawable
aware as well.
- New "Vectors Structure" in the XCF format: XCF files (format bumped to
version 18) can now store and load all the usual and common properties of
other items. In other words, it makes XCF now able to store locks, color
tags and several selected paths.
- XCF saving with RLE and zlib encoding are now multi-threaded and therefore
much faster in most cases.
- Pasting an image now creates a new layer by default (not a Floating Layer
anymore). The only 3 cases where we still have floating items are:
* when pasting into a layer mask;
* when doing quick copy/cut paste on-canvas with the Alt modifiers;
* when floating layers explicitly with the "Float" action.
- Copy-paste code was deeply reviewed and re-specified in the light of
multi-item selection; it's still a WIP:
* When pasting several drawables, we currently paste them over the top
selected layer (visually in Layers dockable).
* Pasted data position was rewritten, based on existing logic, but taking
into account the multiple selected items.
* Pasting a selected area from multiple layers still creates multiple
layers, not merged pixel contents as a single layer.
* New layers created when copying from a selection are consistently the
offset and dimensions of the bounding box of the dimension.
* When a layer and one of its group layer parent are selected, it is
equivalent to have only the child layer selected.
- 2 new actions were added: "Paste as Single Layer" and "Paste as Single Layer
in Place" under the "Paste as" submenu of Edit menu. These paste the copied
layers as a single merged layer, instead of as several layers (as "Paste"
and "Paste in Place" do).
Graphical User Interface:
- New "Gray" theme based on a 18.42% luminance middle-gray background, which
should be a good neutral environment for color work.
- The foreground/background editor in the toolbox will now take into account
the toolbox icon size and resize itself accordingly (live, as you change
theme). This allows to have really narrow toolbox when you use small icons.
- Theme-override icon size selection in Preferences > Themes: this allows to
override theme-set icon sizes, with a global concept of small, medium, large
and huge. The following widgets are so far modified: toolbox icons, fg/bg
editor in toolbox, fg/bg editor in Colors dockable, dockables tab icons,
bottom buttons (in the button box) of dockables, header eye and lock icons
above item trees, and eye and lock icon switches in item tree cells.
- Symmetry dockable contents is now shown, yet deactivated, when no images are
opened, improving discoverability.
- Reworked the "Convert to * Working Space?" dialog into a "Keep the Embedded
Working Space?" one. Keeping an image working space is now the recommended
and default action. "Convert" became an explicit action requiring to click
(neither mapped to Enter nor Escape keys).
- "Floating Selection" renamed to "Floating Layer" or "Floating Mask"
depending on the type of item it applies to.
- "Floating Masks" are now drawn above the layer mask in the Layers dockable,
making the fact that they would anchor to the below layer mask (not the
layer) much more obvious.
- "Paste into Selection" and "Paste into Selection in Place" were moved under
the "Paste as" submenu of Edit menu.
Tools:
- Text tool: new "Outlined" and "Outlined and filled" options, with various
sub-options to choose the outline style, color, pattern, width, cap and join
styles, miter limit, anti-aliasing and dash pattern.
- Align tool:
* now multi-item aware, it is much more usable than it used to be when we
had to click on canvas to select items.
* On-canvas clicks are now only needed to select guides (Alt or Alt-Shift
click and selected guide colors change) or for the reference object
(normal click).
* Also the reference object gets on-canvas handles and the name is written
in the dockable, making it obvious if you selected the right reference or
not.
* Moreover the selected reference will now loop when layers are stacked on
each other, which allow to select a bottom layer, even if there are layers
above it everywhere.
* New option "Use extents of layer contents" to Align tool: this is similar
to first run "Crop to Content" on every layer to align or distribute
(without actually cropping the layers).
* Fine-grained align/distribute button sensitivity to make it more obvious
when an action would not make any change anyway.
* New anchor point setting (pivot widget) to choose which part of the target
items will be aligned or distributed.
* Get rid of various broken distribution actions.
* Distribution actions don't move the 2 extreme (top/bottom or left/right
depending on distribution direction) targets, but distribute all other
targets within their range. It is more consistent with how it works in
other software.
* Adding 2 "Distribute with evenly (horizontal|vertical) gaps" actions,
which distribute by keeping a common gap between objects instead of
between anchor points.
* Offset settings have been removed.
- Transform tools are now auto-activated on selection (and when switching
images or item selection).
Plug-ins:
- PDF:
* Export code was ported to GimpProcedureDialog.
* New "root-layers-only" argument to "file-pdf-save", which comes
with a checkbox in the export dialog to allow exporting as pages
the root layers only. The main usage is to organize your pages'
contents in layer groups.
- AVIF:
* RGB AVIF compatibility with Safari on iOS 16.0: Some AVIF images are
rendered differently in Apple's implementation compared to implementations
of Google and Mozilla. See: AOMediaCodec/av1-avif#195
This changes requires libheif 1.10.0 though the plug-in can still build
with older libheif.
- PSD:
* export of CMYK(A) files added, with 8 or 16-bit precision per channel,
using a CMYK soft-proof profile for conversion.
* Paths are now exported with PSD files.
- JPEG-XL:
* Metadata import/export now supported (requires libjxl 0.7.0).
- Python-Console:
* sys.stdout.flush() implemented as a no-op inside the console, to be able
to easily copy-paste code, or using libraries which flush the output.
- ICNS:
* Initial support for loading and exporting.
- TIFF:
* New toggle to optionally load reduced pages. We keep a heuristic to try
and guess whether these are thumbnails (single reduced image in the second
position), but it's only used to decide whether the option is checked by
default or not. It is now up to anyone to decide or not whether they want
to load these reduced images.
API:
- Changes in libgimp:
* Abstract method get_window() of GimpProgressVtable had its signature
changed. The window ID is now a guint64.
* New functions:
+ gimp_text_layer_set_markup()
+ gimp_image_get_selected_channels()
+ gimp_image_get_selected_vectors()
+ gimp_image_list_selected_channels()
+ gimp_image_list_selected_vectors()
+ gimp_image_set_selected_channels()
+ gimp_image_set_selected_vectors()
+ gimp_image_take_selected_channels()
+ gimp_image_take_selected_vectors()
+ gimp_image_list_selected_drawables()
* Updated functions:
+ gimp_vectors_stroke_translate() now uses offsets in double type.
* New classes:
+ GimpTextLayer: child class of GimpLayer.
- Changes in libgimpwidgets:
* Updated widgets:
+ GimpPickButton now has a specific implementation for Windows. In
particular it improves color picking with multi-monitor and scales
different than 100%.
Build:
- meson requirement bump to meson 0.56.0.
- Many fixes to the meson build scripts, making it closer to be our
official build for GIMP 3.0.
- The CI now generates a tarball containing the GIMP references,
generated by gi-docgen and g-ir-doc.
- Improved Clang 15.0.0 support.
- "win*-nightly" jobs were added back and are now more efficient with the
--output-dll-list option.
- babl requirement bumped to babl 0.1.98.
- GEGL requirement bumped to GEGL 0.4.40.
- GIMP macOS builds (gimp-macos-build repository) was moved to using MacPorts
in order to take advantage of a bigger community to maintain our
dependencies.
- GIMP now has an Apple Silicon build.- Loading branch information
