[gimp-help-2] Updated whats-new section.
- From: Marco Ciampa <marcoc src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-help-2] Updated whats-new section.
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 00:42:05 +0000 (UTC)
commit a04ad7db140faafeb083310f0c0b13932061bbd4
Author: Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it>
Date: Tue May 8 02:41:07 2012 +0200
Updated whats-new section.
src/introduction/whats-new.xml | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/src/introduction/whats-new.xml b/src/introduction/whats-new.xml
index d783425..04f581c 100644
--- a/src/introduction/whats-new.xml
+++ b/src/introduction/whats-new.xml
@@ -194,6 +194,20 @@
<listitem>
<para>
+ You can now
+ <keycombo><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>Click</keycap></keycombo>
+ on layers in the Layers dialog to create a selection from
+ it. Add, subtract and intersect modifiers
+ <keycap>Click</keycap>, <keycap>Shift</keycap> and
+ <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Shift</keycap></keycombo>
+ keys work too. This makes it easy to compose contents of a
+ layer based on the contents of other layers, without
+ detours.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
Since the keyboard shortcuts
<keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>E</keycap></keycombo>
and
@@ -237,7 +251,8 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Removed Toolbox from list of Recently Closed Docks, handle that directly in the Windows menu.
+ Removed Toolbox from list of Recently Closed Docks, handle
+ that directly in the Windows menu.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -253,6 +268,13 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Now it is possible to change the application language
+ directly from the preference menu.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -267,6 +289,8 @@
<para>
With this new tool is now possible to create custom bending
of a selection just moving its vector frame control points.
+ This is the result of one of our Google Summer of Code 2010
+ students.
</para>
<figure>
<title>Cage Transform</title>
@@ -363,6 +387,26 @@
<listitem>
<para>
+ Allow specifying the written language in the Text
+ Tool. This helps with choosing an appropriate font, or
+ appropriate glyphs for the selected language.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Added optional diagonal guides to the crop tool.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Added <quote>Rule of fifths</quote> crop guide overlay.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
A Cairo based PDF exporter was implemented. While being
somewhat simplistic the exporter saves text, embedding
fonts into the final PDF file, and attempts to convert
@@ -384,13 +428,15 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Added added plug-ins for X11 Mouse Cursor import and export support.
+ Added added plug-ins for X11 Mouse Cursor import and
+ export support.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Added fundamental OpenRaster (.ora) import and export support.
+ Added fundamental OpenRaster (.ora) import and export
+ support.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -402,7 +448,8 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- A Web-page plug-in was added to render any web page into an image using Webkit.
+ A Web-page plug-in was added to render any web page into
+ an image using Webkit.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -479,17 +526,62 @@
<title>Miscellaneous</title>
<varlistentry>
- <term>.</term>
+ <term>License change</term>
<listitem>
<para>
The GIMP license has been changed to (L)GPLv3+.
</para>
- <para>
- .
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>New script API</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A lot of GIMP APIs have been refactored to simplify
+ developing new scripts.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ To further enhances its scripting abilities, have been made
+ API changes to support layer groups.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Backwards Compatibility</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ To address the needs to migrate from the old tools presets
+ system to the new one there is a Python <ulink
+ url="http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Mindstorm:Preset_converter";>script</ulink>
+ downloadable from the <acronym>GIMP</acronym> wiki
+ site. However, the old tools presets are not 100%
+ convertible to the new tool presets. For instance, brush
+ scale from 2.6 can't be converted to brush size in 2.8.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Known Problems</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Working with graphics tablets could be problematic due to
+ the GTK+2 library in use. If in this case either use the
+ older version 2.6 or wait for the up coming version 3.0
+ for the full GTK+3 support.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
</sect1>
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