[gimp-web/testing] Some minor text update to the 2.10.12 news.
- From: Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-web/testing] Some minor text update to the 2.10.12 news.
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 12:16:49 +0000 (UTC)
commit 55c2d0d2b458d86ad610979c32f7e13c37d34bdc
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date: Wed May 8 21:16:12 2019 +0900
Some minor text update to the 2.10.12 news.
.../news/2019-05_GIMP-2.10.12_Released/index.md | 49 ++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/content/news/2019-05_GIMP-2.10.12_Released/index.md
b/content/news/2019-05_GIMP-2.10.12_Released/index.md
index 8b68fa42..263c29a8 100644
--- a/content/news/2019-05_GIMP-2.10.12_Released/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2019-05_GIMP-2.10.12_Released/index.md
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ Curves editing!
# Improvement and features
## Improving curves editing and Curves tool
-### Generic Curves interaction
+### Generic curves interaction
The interaction with curves in general has been greatly enhanced, which
is an improvement both to the Curves tool and all other places where
curves need tweaking (currently paint dynamics and input device settings):
-#### Use relative motion when dragging point
+#### Relative motion when dragging points
When dragging an existing curve point, it won't "jump" anymore to the
cursor position upon pressing the button. Instead it will move
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ than the cursor's.
#### Snap to curve when holding Ctrl
-When holding down Ctrl while adding or dragging a point, the
+When holding down `Ctrl` while adding or dragging a point, the
y-coordinate will snap to the original curve.
This is particularly useful for adding points along the
curve, without changing their y-coordinate.
-Likewise, the coordinate indicator shows the snapped coordinate.
+Likewise, the coordinate indicator shows the snapped coordinates.
### Curves tool specific interaction
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ and the type can be changed in the Curves tool.
## TIFF now has layer support!
-Thanks to Tobias Ellinghaus, well known as a Darktable developer, TIFF
-can now export images without merging layers.
+Thanks to Tobias Ellinghaus, well known as a [darktable](http://darktable.org/)
+developer, TIFF can now export images without merging layers.
## Support of user-installed fonts on Windows
@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ Windows 10 feature. Windows 10 users indeed now have the ability to
permissions](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/06/27/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17704/#kt29svdWTKQ4QIx3.97)
since a recent update.
-Therefore we add this non-admin font folder to our search path when
+Therefore we added this non-admin font folder to our search path when
running GIMP. As I said though, it should be only a temporary workaround
-since hopefully this [should be
+since eventually this [should be
supported](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/144)
by the upstream library used to manage fonts, *fontconfig*.
@@ -85,33 +85,34 @@ Note also that it is not fully tested because of our lack of Windows
developers. Therefore we are mostly hoping it will work as expected, and
this is a good time to make a call again:
-**Are you a Windows developer? Do you love GIMP? [Please
-contribute](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=OS%3A%20Windows)!**
+> Are you a Windows developer? Do you love GIMP? [Please
+>
contribute](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=OS%3A%20Windows)!
Seriously none of our current developers use Windows and bugs are
-piling up in our bug tracker. We are happy to do the occasional good
+piling up in our bug tracker for this platform, whereas GIMP is so
+enjoyably stable on GNU/Linux. We are happy to do the occasional good
deeds, but there are limits to what we can do for a platform we don't
use. On the other hands, we happily welcome patches and new
contributors! Just come help us, we don't bite!
-## Incremental mode to the Dodge/Burn tool
+## Incremental mode in the Dodge/Burn tool
-The Dodge and Burn tools got a new "Incremental" option which,
-similarly to the Paintbrush, Pencil, and Eraser tools, applies the
+The Dodge and Burn tools got a new "*Incremental*" option which,
+similarly to the Paintbrush, Pencil and Eraser tools, applies the
effect incrementally as the pointer moves.
## Free Select tool creates preliminary selection
-One of the GIMP 2.10.0 changes which annoyed many people was that the
-Free Select tool was not creating a selection immediately when the
-selection is closed. One was forced to perform an additional
-confirmation step (`Enter` or `double-click`).
+One of GIMP 2.10.0 changes which annoyed many people was that the Free
+Select tool was not creating a selection immediately when the region is
+closed. One was forced to perform an additional confirmation step
+(`Enter` or `double-click`).
This was done on purpose because we wanted to leave ability to tweak the
free selection. Yet it could obviously be better, proof being the
-Rectangle selection, which still allowed to edit the rectangle even
+Rectangle selection which still allowed to edit the rectangle even
though a selection was pre-created. The Free Select tool now works the
-same. Even though a preliminary selection exists (allowing to directly
+same: even though a preliminary selection exists (allowing to directly
copy or delete a contents without additional step), you will still be
able to edit this free selection as long as you don't start another
selection nor change tools.
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ the other hand, if no explicit profile was set, and if the export format
is 8-bit only (such as JPEG), we transform the data to sRGB in order to
avoid posterization and shadow artifacts.
-Note that there are still edge cases which we don't find optimal yet,
+Note that there are still edge cases which we don't find optimal yet
regarding how profiles are handled. These should all be greatly improved
when we will merge the "Space Invasion" code (an ongoing mid-term
project, as we were already [talking about it when releasing GIMP
@@ -149,13 +150,15 @@ This code merge should hopefully happen soon enough!
# Around GIMP
## GEGL and babl
-TODO
+During this development span, GEGL 0.4.16 got released as well.
+
+TODO: tell more!
# What's next
Though it gets less visibility, work on upcoming GIMP 3 continues and is
going well. We will give more news soon enough. For the time being,
-don't forget you [donate to the project and personally fund several
+don't forget you can [donate to the project and personally fund several
GIMP developers](https://www.gimp.org/donating/), as a way to give back
and to accelerate GIMP development.
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