gimp-web r1838 - in branches/v2.6: . release-notes

[martinn svn gnome org]

Author: martinn
Date: Tue Sep 23 07:45:58 2008
New Revision: 1838
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gimp-web?rev=1838&view=rev

Log:
* release-notes/gimp-2.6.htrw (Under the Hood/GEGL):
Rewritten. Mention the ported color operations and the
experimental GEGL Operation tool.

(Under the Hood/Minor Changes): New section, mention that many
widgets have been ported to cairo.


Modified:
   branches/v2.6/ChangeLog
   branches/v2.6/release-notes/gimp-2.6.htrw

Modified: branches/v2.6/release-notes/gimp-2.6.htrw
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--- branches/v2.6/release-notes/gimp-2.6.htrw	(original)
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 </ul>
 
 
-<h2>Under the hood</h2>
+<h2>Under the Hood</h2>
 
 <h3>GEGL</h3>
 <p>
-  Most notable of under-the-hood changes are the first steps of 
-  <a href="http://gegl.org";>GEGL</a> integration. Right now the effect
-  on user experience is minimal, but it is an important development
-  for the future. Once GEGL integration is complete, GIMP will finally 
-  get support for higher color depths, more color spaces and eventually
-  non-destructive editing.
+  Important progress towards high bit-depth and non-destructive
+  editing in GIMP has been made. Most color operations in GIMP are now
+  ported to the powerful graph based image processing
+  framework <a href="http://www.gegl.org/";>GEGL</a>, meaning that the
+  interal processing is being done in 32bit floating point linear
+  light RGBA. By default the legacy 8bit code paths are still used,
+  but a curious user can turn on the use of GEGL for the color
+  operations with <i>Colors / Use GEGL</i>.
 </p>
+<p>
+  In addition to porting color operations to GEGL, an
+  experimental <i>GEGL Operation</i> tool has been added, found in
+  the <i>Tools</i> menu. It enables applying GEGL operations to
+  e.g. layers in an image and it gives on-canvas previews of the
+  results.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Minor Changes</h3>
+<ul>
+  <li>
+    Ported many widgets to use the 2D graphics
+    library <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/";>Cairo</a> for
+    drawing.
+  </li>
+</ul>
 
 
 <h2>Installation</h2>