[gimp-help-2] Updated whats-new section.



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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