[gimp-web/testing] Proof Jehan's 2.10.8 release news post
- From: Pat David <patdavid src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-web/testing] Proof Jehan's 2.10.8 release news post
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 23:15:28 +0000 (UTC)
commit 4cd5db576718837d5b8e8d7f4d5f668f9334fb70
Author: Pat David <patdavid gmail com>
Date: Wed Nov 7 17:15:18 2018 -0600
Proof Jehan's 2.10.8 release news post
content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md | 64 +++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md
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index bfa16b9f..b78c39a1 100644
--- a/content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md
@@ -6,13 +6,14 @@ Slug: gimp-2-10-8-released
Summary: GIMP 2.10.8 released, bug fixes and optimizations
Status: draft
-Though GIMP updated policy allows cool new features in micro releases,
-we also take pride on the stability of our software, so that you could
-edit images feeling that your work is safe. In this spirit, GIMP 2.10.8
-is mostly the result of dozens of bug fixes and optimizations.
+Though the updated GIMP release policy allows cool new features in micro releases,
+we also take pride on the stability of our software (so that you can edit images feeling that your work is
safe).
+In this spirit, GIMP 2.10.8 is mostly the result of dozens of bug fixes and optimizations.
<figure>
-<img src="{attach}wilber-co-Aryeom_stability.png" alt="Stable GIMP, Wilber and Co."/>
+<a href="{attach}wilber-co-Aryeom_stability.png">
+<img src="{filename}wilber-co-Aryeom_stability.png" alt="Stable GIMP, Wilber and Co."/>
+</a>
<figcaption>
<em>Wilber and Co.</em> strip, by <a href="https://girinstud.io/">Aryeom and Jehan</a>, 2013
</figcaption>
@@ -21,16 +22,16 @@ is mostly the result of dozens of bug fixes and optimizations.
In particular, chunk size of image projections are now determined
dynamically depending on processing speed, allowing better
responsiveness of GIMP on less powerful machines whereas processing
-would end up faster on more powerful ones.
+would be faster on more powerful ones.
Moreover various tools have been added to generate performance logs,
which will allow us to optimize GIMP even more in the future.
-As most recent optimizations of GIMP, these are the results of Ell's
+As with most recent optimizations of GIMP, these are the results of Ell's
awesomeness. Thanks Ell!
In the meantime, various bugs have been fixed, for instance in
-`wavelet-decompose`, for the new vertical text feature (including text
-along path), in selection tools, and so on. On Windows, we also improved
+`wavelet-decompose`, the new vertical text feature (including text
+along path), selection tools, and so on. On Windows, we also improved
RawTherapee detection (for RawTherapee 5.5 and over), working in sync
with the developers of this very nice RAW processing software.
And many, many more fixes, here and there…
@@ -59,27 +60,27 @@ more details.
[NEWS]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/blob/c6f1196721d9e8d1179a09d91557656895e6086d/NEWS#L11
[commit history]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/commits/gimp-2-10
-# Around GIMP
-## GEGL
+## Around GIMP
+### GEGL
Øyvind Kolås has been working on doing [multispectral/hyperspectral processing
-in GEGL](https://www.patreon.com/posts/camayakaa-float-22446330), GIMP
+in GEGL](https://www.patreon.com/posts/camayakaa-float-22446330), GIMP's
graphics engine, which happens to be the groundwork for CMYK processing.
This is therefore the first steps for better CMYK support in GIMP!
-So we hope that anyone who wants to see this happening in GIMP will
+We hope that anyone who wants to see this happening in GIMP will
support [Øyvind on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/pippin)!
-## GIMP in University
+### GIMP in University
Aryeom, well known around here for being the director of [ZeMarmot
movie](https://film.zemarmot.net/en/), a skilled illustrator and a
-contributor to GIMP has given graphics course with GIMP as a guest
+contributor to GIMP has given a graphics course with GIMP as a guest
teacher for nearly a week at the *Université de Cergy-Pontoise* in
France, mid-October.
She taught to 2 classes, a computer graphics class and a 3D heritage one,
-focusing respectively on digital illustration for the former and
+focusing on digital illustration for the former and
retouching for the later.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="fr"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now here is the last day with the 3D
heritage 🏺 class (<a href="https://twitter.com/AryeomHan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AryeomHan</a> on the right) of
<a href="https://twitter.com/UniversiteCergy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UniversiteCergy</a> <a
href="https://twitter.com/ucp_lpmn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ucp_lpmn</a>. They worked on retouching (+ painting
basics) e.g. old frescos/painting. As last exercise, they digitally saved Mona Lisa from vandalism thanks to
<a href="https://twitter.com/GIMP_Official?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GIMP_Official</a> ! ;-) <a
href="https://t.co/8xJw8BeBWn">pic.twitter.com/8xJw8BeBWn</a></p>— ZeMarmot (@zemarmot) <a
href="https://twitter.com/zemarmot/status/1053584663145525249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">20 octobre
2018</a></blockquote>
@@ -87,16 +88,17 @@ retouching for the later.
This is a well-deserved demonstration that GIMP is getting more and more
recognition as it now gets taught in big schools and universities. Students
-were very happy globally, and I will conclude by quoting a student at
-the end of a 3 day-course: "*I didn't know that GIMP was the Blender for
-2D; now this is one more software in my toolbox!*"
+were very happy overall, and I will conclude by quoting a student at
+the end of a 3 day-course:
+
+>*I didn't know that GIMP was the Blender for 2D; now this is one more software in my toolbox!*
We remind that you can also support [Aryeom's work on
Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot), [on
Tipeee](https://fr.tipeee.com/zemarmot) or
[Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/).
-## Debugging GIMP on macOS
+### Debugging GIMP on macOS
Our macOS contributor, Alex Samorukov, has been very hard at work
improving the macOS/OSX package, debugging and patching.
@@ -104,29 +106,29 @@ improving the macOS/OSX package, debugging and patching.
As a side note, when Aryeom was teaching with GIMP, one of the 2
classrooms was on macOS (the other being on Linux), and we discovered 2
very annoying bugs (docks locking up and glitchs on white parts of
-canvas), which got fixed since then by [Ell](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl/issues/104) and
+canvas), which got fixed by [Ell](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl/issues/104) and
[Jehan](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1924).
We remind that we have very few developers for macOS and Windows and we
welcome any contributors if you want GIMP to be well supported on your
operating system of choice!
-## Flatpak statistics
+### Flatpak statistics
Though Flathub does not provide (yet) any public statistics for packages,
-some internal source told us that over 214 000 downloads of GIMP were
-made since its existence ([2017/10](https://twitter.com/zemarmot/status/920045077992476673)).
+some internal source told us that there have been over 214,000 downloads of GIMP
+since its existence ([2017/10](https://twitter.com/zemarmot/status/920045077992476673)).
This is more than 500 downloads a day, and by far the most downloaded flathub application!
Flathub is a new kind of application repository for GNU/Linux, so of
-course these numbers are not at all representative of all downloads.
+course these numbers are not representative of all downloads.
In particular, we don't have statistics for Windows and macOS versions.
Even for Linux, every distribution out there makes its own package of GIMP.
-So this is a small share, and yet already a nice one, of the full usage of
+So this is a small share, and a nice one, of the full usage of
GIMP around the globe!
-## GIF is dead! Long live WebP!
+### GIF is dead! Long live WebP!
The GIF format is the only animated image format which is visible in any
web browser, making it the de-facto format for basic animation on the
@@ -138,18 +140,18 @@ browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera) first,
when a [2-year old feature request for Mozilla Firefox got closed as
"FIXED"](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490).
-Therefore we sure hope platforms will take this new format in consideration,
-and that everyone will stop creating GIF images soon now that there are actual
+Therefore we sure hope platforms will take this new format into consideration,
+and that everyone will stop creating GIF images now that there are actual
alternatives in most browser!
-And last but not least, we remind that GIMP has already WebP support
+And last but not least, we remind everyone that GIMP has already had WebP support
since [GIMP 2.10.0](https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/27/gimp-2-10-0-released/)!
Disclaimer: the GIMP team is neutral towards formats. We are aware of
other animated image formats, such as APNG or MNG, and wish them all the
best as well!
-# Conclusion
+## Conclusion
This is a small release, yet a very eventful time!
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