[gimp-web] More updates to the 2.7 release notes
- From: Michael Natterer <mitch src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-web] More updates to the 2.7 release notes
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:00:00 +0000 (UTC)
commit 4eb52bab9ec23985bdce532c6771dcddb12a9d07
Author: Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>
Date: Mon Jun 28 20:59:35 2010 +0200
More updates to the 2.7 release notes
release-notes/gimp-2.7.htrw | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/release-notes/gimp-2.7.htrw b/release-notes/gimp-2.7.htrw
index b604915..ec62200 100644
--- a/release-notes/gimp-2.7.htrw
+++ b/release-notes/gimp-2.7.htrw
@@ -48,9 +48,16 @@ If you need to get work done, please use the stable version, GIMP 2.6.
Text editing with the Text Tool is now performed on-canvas instead
of in a separate window. The editing on-canvas is rather
sophisticated and tries to mimic text editing capabilities of
- gedit. There are still some polishing left to do here, but it works
- rather nice already. This feature was developed during Google Summer
- of Code 2008.
+ GtkTextView. There are still some polishing left to do here, but it
+ works rather nice already. This feature was developed during Google
+ Summer of Code 2008.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ An infrastructure has been added that allows to embed user interface
+ elements on the canvas. This is currently used for text styles in the
+ text tool, and (experimentally) when a color correction tool is invoked
+ while the canvas is in full-screen mode.
</p>
<p>
@@ -160,10 +167,10 @@ If you need to get work done, please use the stable version, GIMP 2.6.
<p>
The projection code, the code that composes a single image from
- layers, have been ported to GEGL. This includes the layer
- modes. Refactorings to prepare for adding support for nested layers
- aka layer groups has also been performed, such as preparations for
- better and more intuitive handling of the floating selection.
+ layers, have been ported to GEGL. This includes the layer modes, as
+ well as support for nested layers aka layer groups. Also,
+ preparations have been made for better and more intuitive handling
+ of the floating selection.
</p>
@@ -207,6 +214,14 @@ fail.
</p>
<p>
+Also, do <strong>not</strong> install GIMP 2.7 to /usr/local because
+on most systems, its libraries would override the libraries of a stable
+GIMP 2.6 installed into /usr, breaking your distribution-installed
+GIMP from slightly to completely. The same applies to any prefix
+your system uses for the purpose or overriding things in /usr/lib.
+</p>
+
+<p>
You install the new version into a separate prefix, say /opt/gimp-2.7
by passing <kbd>--prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7</kbd> to the configure
script. Then, in order to run the binary installed there, you change
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