[gimp-help-2] Updated general wording for whats-new section in English.
- From: Roman Joost <romanofski src gnome org>
- To: svn-commits-list gnome org
- Subject: [gimp-help-2] Updated general wording for whats-new section in English.
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:16:33 +0000 (UTC)
commit 1fb4e37481daae619341923cf2c769f13e1481e2
Author: Andrew Pitonyak <andrew pitonyak org>
Date: Wed Jun 24 20:05:04 2009 -0400
Updated general wording for whats-new section in English.
src/introduction/whats-new.xml | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/src/introduction/whats-new.xml b/src/introduction/whats-new.xml
index 81338a2..24e3874 100644
--- a/src/introduction/whats-new.xml
+++ b/src/introduction/whats-new.xml
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
<listitem>
<para>
With the empty image window acting as a natural main window, the
- default window hints for the Toolbox and Docks have been changed to
- Utility window. This enables window managers to do a much better
+ Toolbox and Docks windows are now utility windows rather than main
+ windows. This enables window managers to do a much better
job of managing the GIMP windows, including omitting the Toolbox
and Docks from the taskbar and ensuring that the Toolbox and Docks
always are above image windows.
@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@
<term>Ability to scroll beyond image border</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- It is now possible to pan beyond the image border, making image
- window navigation much less constrained. It is no longer a problem
- to use the edge of a brush on the edge of an image while being
- zoomed in, and one can adapt the canvas to any utility windows
- covering parts of the image window.
+ The Navigation dialog now allows panning beyond the image border;
+ so it is no longer a problem to use a brush on the edge of
+ an image thatfills the entire display window. Also, if a utility
+ window covers the image, you can pan the image to view or edit the
+ portion covered by the utility window.
</para>
<figure>
<title>Scrolling beyond border</title>
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
selections. It also allows mixing free hand segments with polygonal
segments, editing of existing segments, applying angle-constraints
to segments, and of course the normal selection tool operations
- like add and subtract. Altoghether this ends up making the Free
+ like add and subtract. Altogether this ends up making the Free
Select Tool a very versatile, powerful and easy-to-use selection
tool.
</para>
@@ -157,11 +157,12 @@
<term>Brush Dynamics</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Brush dynamics let you map different brush parameters, commonly at
- least size and opacity, to one or more of three input dynamics:
- pressure, velocity and random. Velocity and random are usable with
- a mouse. The Ink tool, that supported velocity before, has been
- overhauled and now handles velocity-dependent painting much better.
+ Brush dynamics uses an input dynamic such as pressure, velocity, or
+ random, to modify brush parameters such as opacity, hardness, size,
+ or color; every brush supports size and opacity, most support more.
+ Velocity and random are usable with a mouse. The Ink tool, that
+ supported velocity, has been overhauled to better handle
+ velocity-dependent painting.
</para>
<figure>
<title>Brush Dynamics</title>
@@ -176,11 +177,12 @@
Brush dynamics have enabled a new feature in stroking paths. There
is now a check box under the <quote>paint tool</quote> option, for
emulating brush dynamics if you stroke using a paint tool. What this
- means is that when your stroke is being painted by GIMP, it tells
- the brush that its pressure and velocity are varying along the
- length of the stroke. Pressure starts with zero, ramps up to full
- pressure and then ramps down again to no pressure. Velocity starts
- from zero and ramps up to full speed by the end of the stroke.
+ means is that when your stroke is painted, GIMP tells
+ the brush that the pressure and velocity are varying along the
+ length of the stroke. Pressure starts with no pressure, ramps up to
+ full pressure, and then ramps down again to no pressure.
+ Velocity starts from zero and ramps up to full speed by the end of
+ the stroke.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -325,7 +327,7 @@
editing in GIMP has been made. Most color operations in GIMP are
now ported to the powerful graph based image processing framework
GEGL <xref linkend="bibliography-online-gegl"/>, meaning that the
- internal processing is being done in 32bit floating point linear
+ internal processing is 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 <link linkend="gimp-config-use-gegl">Colors / Use
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