[gimp-web] 2.10.22: 2nd part of copyediting



commit 4ecf32e734d560f9bd6931b77846c5121c1d3e6e
Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Mon Oct 5 12:56:09 2020 +0300

    2.10.22: 2nd part of copyediting

 .../2020/2020-10_GIMP-2.10.22_Released/index.md    | 99 ++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/content/news/2020/2020-10_GIMP-2.10.22_Released/index.md 
b/content/news/2020/2020-10_GIMP-2.10.22_Released/index.md
index f4ee20c4..3868427e 100644
--- a/content/news/2020/2020-10_GIMP-2.10.22_Released/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2020/2020-10_GIMP-2.10.22_Released/index.md
@@ -241,20 +241,20 @@ that anyone can now package third-party plug-ins as "Flatpak extensions"
 and contribute them to the Flathub repository. Thanks to the contributor
 Hubert Figuière, 7 very popular GIMP plug-ins are already available to
 Flatpak users: BIMP, FocusBlur, Fourier, G'MIC, GimpLensfun,
-LiquidRescale and Resynthesizer.
+LiquidRescale, and Resynthesizer.
 
 The one-liner CLI call to install them all at once is (if GIMP is
-already installed as Flatpak and Flathub repository configured):
+already installed as Flatpak, and the Flathub repository is configured):
 
 ```sh
 flatpak install org.gimp.GIMP.Plugin.Resynthesizer org.gimp.GIMP.Plugin.LiquidRescale 
org.gimp.GIMP.Plugin.Lensfun org.gimp.GIMP.Plugin.GMic org.gimp.GIMP.Plugin.Fourier 
org.gimp.GIMP.Plugin.FocusBlur org.gimp.GIMP.Plugin.BIMP
 ```
 
-*Note*: Flathub does not provide yet a way to discover software
+*Note*: Flathub does *not* yet provide a way to discover software
 extensions directly on its web catalog. The following CLI call can be
 used to search for GIMP plug-ins: `flatpak search org.gimp.GIMP.Plugin`
 
-Moreover the GIMP manual will now be installed by default when
+Moreover, the GIMP manual will now be installed by default when
 installing our Flatpak, but not in all languages. To install the manuals
 in all available languages, run:
 
@@ -285,18 +285,19 @@ but the downloadable archive was huge, containing many temporary files
 from the build process and a wrapper to necessarily run at first launch.
 We now implemented a new CI job with a slimmed-down and hopefully usable
 build (if not please report, or better: send us patches!) and already
-fully set up with no first launch process. The idea came from the
-[Siril](http://www.siril.org/) project (astronomical image processing
-free software) after we helped them set up a cross-compilation CI,
-similar to ours, using [crossroad](https://pypi.org/project/crossroad/).
-A pretty good example of exchange between Free Software where some code
-goes from one project to another where it is improved, then back to the
-original one. 🥳
+fully set up with no first launch process.
+
+The idea came from the [Siril](http://www.siril.org/) project
+(astronomical image processing free software) after we helped them set
+up a cross-compilation CI, similar to ours, using
+[crossroad](https://pypi.org/project/crossroad/). A pretty good example
+of exchange between free software where some code goes from one project
+to another where it is improved, then back to the original one. 🥳
 
 This will be very useful when asking people to test the development
-version as a lot of bugs are fixed on it (often just because the GTK+2
+version as a lot of bugs are fixed on it (often just because the GTK2
 toolkit is simply not maintained anymore whereas the development version
-using GTK+3 fixes the problem by itself). The following dynamic links
+using GTK3 fixes the problem by itself). The following dynamic links
 will always return you the last successful development builds:
 
 * » [Last development build of GIMP for Windows
@@ -304,84 +305,90 @@ will always return you the last successful development builds:
 * » [Last development build of GIMP for Windows
 32-bit](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/jobs/artifacts/master/download?job=win32-nightly) «
 
-*NOTE 0: test builds are for testing purpose only (as the name tells!).
-They have not been human-tested, it relies on very often modified
-development code and our automatic build process is still a bit young
-(which means there may even be bugs specific to the build). So do not
-use for production!*
+*NOTE 1: test builds are for testing purpose only (as the name tells!).
+They have not been human-tested, it relies on regularly modified
+development code, and our automatic build process is still a bit young,
+which means there may even be bugs specific to the build. So please do
+not use it for production!*
 
-*NOTE 1: there are still a few known issues such as missing GObject
+*NOTE 2: there are still a few known issues such as missing GObject
 Introspection, i.e. that the Python 3/Javascript/Lua/Vala plug-ins won't
 work with this build (yet).*
 
-*NOTE 2: these builds are not provided with a fancy installer nor any
+*NOTE 3: these builds are not provided with a fancy installer nor any
 desktop integration (i.e. no shortcuts in menus, etc.). Just unzip the
 archive, and double-click `gimp.cmd` or `gimp-2.99.exe` files.*
 
-These changes are all part of a more global work-in-progress to improve
+These changes are all part of a more global work in progress to improve
 development code testing as well as eventually automatize the release
-procedure, to be faster, easier and more trustworthy.
+procedure to be faster, easier, and more trustworthy.
 
 # Contributors
 
-Contributors to this release are: Daniel Novomesky, David Russo, Elad Shahar, Ell, Jacob Boerema, Jehan, 
Liam Quin, Michael Natterer, Peter Oliver, luz.paz, sabri ünal, Sebastian Rasmussen, Simon McVittie, space 
pudim, Øyvind Kolås.
+Contributors to this release are: Daniel Novomesky, David Russo,
+Elad Shahar, Ell, Jacob Boerema, Jehan, Liam Quin, Michael Natterer,
+Peter Oliver, luz.paz, sabri ünal, Sebastian Rasmussen, Simon McVittie,
+space pudim, Øyvind Kolås.
 
-Translators: Alan Mortensen, Alexandre Prokoudine, Anders Jonsson, Andika Triwidada, Asier Sarasua 
Garmendia, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov, Boyuan Yang, Christian Kirbach, Daniel Mustieles, Jordi Mas, Julien 
Hardelin, Marco Ciampa, Milo Ivir, Piotr Drąg, Rodrigo Lledó, Sabri Ünal, sicklylife, Stephan Woidowski, Tim 
Sabsch, Yuri Chornoivan.
+Translators: Alan Mortensen, Alexandre Prokoudine, Anders Jonsson,
+Andika Triwidada, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov,
+Boyuan Yang, Christian Kirbach, Daniel Mustieles, Jordi Mas,
+Julien Hardelin, Marco Ciampa, Milo Ivir, Piotr Drąg, Rodrigo Lledó,
+Sabri Ünal, sicklylife, Stephan Woidowski, Tim Sabsch, Yuri Chornoivan.
 
-We also thank lillolollo, nmat, and Michael Schumacher for triaging bug reports, and Julien Hardelin for 
updating the user manual.
+We also thank lillolollo, nmat, and Michael Schumacher for triaging bug
+reports, and Julien Hardelin for updating the user manual.
 
 # What's next
 
 During the same time span, specific work on the development version
-(future GIMP 3) continued, including:
+(future GIMP 3.0) continued, including:
 
-* Multi layer selection support added in the Layers dockable and taken
+* Multi-layer selection support added in the Layers dockable and taken
   into account by many tools and features.
 * Several API improvements:
     - PDB functions can be called more easily from one plug-in to
       another in language bindings;
     - image rotation is now handled by core GIMP when importing new
-      images (similarly to how color profile import happens) and a new
-      settings of "*Rotation policy*" is made available in Preferences;
+      images (similarly to how color profile importing happens) and
+      a new "*Rotation policy*" setting is made available in Preferences;
     - GObject Introspection for GimpUI now discards the `gimp_ui` prefix
       when relevant (i.e. `gimp_ui_init()` will be `GimpUi.init()` rather
       than `GimpUi.ui_init()`);
     - Vala GObject Introspection binding improved;
     - New concept of "argument sync" to GimpProcedure so that procedure
       arguments can be synced with an image parasite of the same name.
-* Finally some bug fixing on Windows, e.g. fixing CSS theme loading.
+* Finally, some bug fixing on Windows, e.g. fixing CSS theme loading.
 * Twain plug-in for Windows ported to v3 API. It was the last C plug-in
   which was still totally unported, which means all official plug-ins
   are now at least ported at a usable state (if not necessarily to the
   latest API as it is still a moving target).
 * A few improvements to handle smaller screen (which ironically became
-  even more of a problem with HiPPI scaling being enabled on middle-end
+  even more of a problem with HiDPI scaling being enabled on middle-end
   display resolutions).
 * Former Python 2 specific API (`pygimp`) has now been fully removed and
-  all former Python plug-ins have been ported to Python 3 + new GIMP 3
-  API (a work started over a year ago and now finished, with a lot of
-  help from Elad Shahar). The new way to make Python plug-ins is
+  all former Python plug-ins have been ported to Python 3 and new GIMP 3
+  API (this work started over a year ago and is now finished, with a lot
+  of help from Elad Shahar). The new way to make Python plug-ins is
   streamlined, following the same logics as for other supported
   languages (C/C++, Python 3, Lua, Vala and Javascript so far).
 * Some Wayland bug hunting done (still more to go).
 * GimpSpinScale styling improved and the new style is now unique (old
   non-compact style is not available anymore, unlike in GIMP 2.10.x).
-* Improving Input Device Editor usability.
+* Usability of the Input Devices editor has been improved.
 
-It can be noted also that the interface is now translated in 2 more
-languages in the development branch (first new languages since [Marathi
-support was added back in GIMP
+The user interface is now available in two more languages in the development
+branch (first new languages since [Marathi support was added back in GIMP
 2.10.6](https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/08/19/gimp-2-10-6-released/#a-new-localization-marathi)):
-Kabyle and Central Kurdish.
-Note though these 2 additional language are not yet present in the GIMP
-2.10 series. With these, GIMP will be available in 83 languages. It is a
-very good opportunity to remind that translators are doing a tremendous
-job.
+Kabyle and Central Kurdish. Please note though that these two additional
+translations are not yet present in the GIMP 2.10 series. With these,
+GIMP will be available in 83 languages. It is a very good opportunity
+to remind that translators are doing a tremendous job.
 
 Also with new file format support (AVIF), various major file format
 improvements, new programming languages for plug-ins, our little
 Wilber is really getting very studious lately, learning many new things!
 
-Finally 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 the development of GIMP.
+Finally, please 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 accelerate the development of GIMP.


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