[gimp-web] content: fix GIMP 2.10.30 news.
- From: Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-web] content: fix GIMP 2.10.30 news.
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:28:30 +0000 (UTC)
commit 48138d494ab8f252a9868998a7eab393440e0fea
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date: Mon Dec 20 17:26:10 2021 +0100
content: fix GIMP 2.10.30 news.
- Imbricated lists were broken, and anyway rendered ugly (even after
fixing it), so I made some section titles instead.
- Reword and highlight some text better.
- Alphabetical order for contributor lists.
- Use definition lists to stylize the contributor lists.
.../2021/2021-12_GIMP-2.10.30_Released/index.md | 133 ++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 74 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/content/news/2021/2021-12_GIMP-2.10.30_Released/index.md
b/content/news/2021/2021-12_GIMP-2.10.30_Released/index.md
index fcc7834d..534baa4a 100644
--- a/content/news/2021/2021-12_GIMP-2.10.30_Released/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2021/2021-12_GIMP-2.10.30_Released/index.md
@@ -10,56 +10,70 @@ Status: draft
GIMP 2.10.30 is once again a bugfix release, with many fixes and
incremental improvements, not so much on the "new feature" side.
-# In brief
+# Improved file formats support
+
+Several file format supports were updated with fixes or improvements:
+AVIF, HEIF, PSD, DDS, RGBE and PBM.
+
+Let's highlight in particular:
+
+* **PSD** support received various types of improvements allowing it
+ to load more sub-cases of PSD (layer masks tagged with invalid
+ dimensions, CMYK without alpha, CMYK without layers, merged image of a
+ 16 bit per channel RGBA which had opaque alpha channel…).
+* **AVIF** export now favors AOM encoder.
+
+# OS evolutions
+
+Some backends got reworked to follow OS evolutions:
+
+* Backport of selection outline drawing reimplementation from GIMP
+ 2.99.8 for **macOS Big Sur** and over ([already discussed
+
patch](https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/12/06/gimp-2-99-8-for-macos/#fixed-regressions-in-recent-macos-versions-selection-outlines-and-slowness),
+ itself exceptionnaly backported to the 2.10.28 DMG package so that
+ macOS users enjoyed visible selections earlier).
+* On Windows, we moved from `GetICMProfile()` to the
+ `WcsGetDefaultColorProfile()` API because the former is broken in
+ **Windows 11**. Thus we were failing to get monitor profiles.
+* On Linux and other OSes which might use Freedesktop portals, we
+ implemented color picking on display (`Colors` dockable) with the
+ Freedesktop API when available, keeping old implementations as
+ fallbacks.
+ Screenshot plug-in now also uses in priority the Freedesktop API
+ rather than specific KDE or GNOME API (which are getting restricted
+ for security reasons since **KDE Plasma 5.20** and **GNOME Shell
+ 41**).
+
+# Other improvements
+
+Various improvements were made on metadata support, be it on core code
+as well as in the metadata plug-ins (viewer and editor).
+
+A noteworthy fix is that the text tool won't follow anymore the subpixel
+font rendering choice from system settings. Subpixel rendering is for
+GUI on a screen of a specific type and pixel order and is not suitable
+for image contents which can be zoomed in or out, showed on various
+screens or even printed. This change also depends on a patch we
+contributed to Cairo which will be available in their next release (we
+include the patched version in our flatpak).
-- Many improvements were made on metadata support, be it on core code
- and metadata plug-ins (viewer and editor).
-- Several file format supports were updated with fixes or improvements:
- AVIF, HEIF, PSD, DDS, RGBE and PBM. Let's note in particular:
- * PSD support received various types of improvements allowing it to
- load more sub-cases of PSD (PSD with layer mask tagged with invalid
- dimensions, CMYK PSD without alpha, CMYK PSD without layers, merged
- image of a 16 bit per channel RGBA PSD which had opaque alpha
- channel…).
- * AVIF export now favors AOM encoder.
-- The text tool won't follow anymore the subpixel font rendering choice
- from system settings which is good for GUI rendering on a screen of a
- specific type and pixel order yet not for rendering an image which can
- be zoomed in or out, showed on various screens or even printed.
- This change also depends on a patch we contributed to Cairo which will
- be available in their next release (we include the patched version in
- our flatpak).
-- Some implementation backends got reworked to follow OS evolutions:
- * The backport of the selection drawing from GIMP 2.99.8 to fix the
- invisible selections on **macOS Big Sur** and over ([already widely
- discussed
-
patch](https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/12/06/gimp-2-99-8-for-macos/#fixed-regressions-in-recent-macos-versions-selection-outlines-and-slowness),
- itself exceptionnaly backported to the 2.10.28 DMG package so that
- macOS users enjoyed visible selections earlier).
- * On Windows, port some profile code from `GetICMProfile()` to
- `WcsGetDefaultColorProfile()` API because the former is broken in
- **Windows 11** so we were failing to get monitor profiles.
- * On Linux and other OSes which might use Freedesktop portals, we
- implemented display color picking (button from `Colors` dockable)
- from the Freedesktop API when available, then fallbacking to old
- implementations. Screenshot plug-in now also uses in priority the
- Freedesktop API rather than specific KDE or GNOME API (these API are
- getting restricted for security reasons since **KDE Plasma 5.20**
- and **GNOME Shell 41**).
+# In brief
To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the
[NEWS](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/05227c6889481e2ea973f81ccfa172150e057850/NEWS#L11-71)
file or look at the [commit
history](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/commits/gimp-2-10).
-*Core contributors*: Jehan, Jacob Boerema, Niels De Graef, Adam
-Fontenot, Jordi Mas and Yoshinori Yamakawa.
+*Core code contributors*:
+: Adam Fontenot, Jacob Boerema, Jehan, Jordi Mas, Niels De Graef, Øyvind
+Kolås and Yoshinori Yamakawa.
-*Plugin code contributors*: Jacob Boerema, Jehan, Daniel Novomesky and
-Niels De Graef.
+*Plugin code contributors*:
+: Daniel Novomesky, Jacob Boerema, Jehan and Niels De Graef.
-*Build contributors*: Jehan, Niels De Graef, Jernej Simončič, Yoshinori
-Yamakawa, Øyvind Kolås and Daniel Novomesky.
+*Build contributors*:
+: Daniel Novomesky, Jehan, Jernej Simončič, Øyvind Kolås, Niels De
+Graef and Yoshinori Yamakawa.
# Team news
@@ -83,10 +97,11 @@ Portugal, it already had Brazilian Portuguese), making it available in
Also some previously announced translations were missing in the
installer. These should be fixed now.
-*Translators on GIMP 2.10.30*: Hugo Carvalho, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Anders
-Jonsson, Jordi Mas, Matej Urbančič, Piotr Drąg, Rodrigo Lledó, Yuri
-Chornoivan, Aurimas Černius, Milo Ivir, Bruce Cowan, Bruno Lopes da
-Silva, Daniel Mustieles, Jiri Grönroos and Marco Ciampa.
+*Translators on GIMP 2.10.30*:
+: Anders Jonsson, Aurimas Černius, Bruce Cowan, Bruno Lopes da Silva,
+Daniel Mustieles, Hugo Carvalho, Jiri Grönroos, Jordi Mas, Marco Ciampa,
+Matej Urbančič, Milo Ivir, Piotr Drąg, Rodrigo Lledó, Rūdolfs Mazurs and
+Yuri Chornoivan.
# GEGL
@@ -98,30 +113,30 @@ Some potentially bad bugs were fixed in operations and
the operations, in order not to pollute the GEGL library symbol table
with the ctx symbols.
-**Contributors to this GEGL release**: Anders Jonsson, Asier Sarasua
-Garmendia, Boyuan Yang, dimspingos, Gavin Cui, Hugo Carvalho, Jehan,
-Jordi Mas, krzygorz, Lukas Oberhuber, Marco Ciampa, Matej Urbančič,
-Øyvind Kolås, Rodrigo Lledó, Rūdolfs Mazurs and Simon McVittie.
+*Contributors to the GEGL release*:
+: Anders Jonsson, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Boyuan Yang, dimspingos,
+Gavin Cui, Hugo Carvalho, Jehan, Jordi Mas, krzygorz, Lukas Oberhuber,
+Marco Ciampa, Matej Urbančič, Øyvind Kolås, Rodrigo Lledó, Rūdolfs
+Mazurs and Simon McVittie.
# Downloading GIMP 2.10.30
As usual GIMP 2.10.30 is available on [GIMP official website
-(gimp.org)](https://www.gimp.org/downloads/):
+(gimp.org)](https://www.gimp.org/downloads/).
-The Linux flatpak, Windows installer and macOS DMG package are all
-already available and mirrors fully synced up, in less than a day from
-source release to binary release. This must be our new record of a
-perfectly timed release!
+The Linux flatpak, Windows installer and macOS DMG package are already
+available and mirrors fully synced up, in less than a day from source
+release to binary release. This may be our new record of a perfectly
+timed release!
# What's next
-While the development branch is getting a lot of activity, we don't
-forget the stable branch. This release may not look like much, yet it
-contains several fixes which we really wanted to get out there, so we
-recommend everyone to update.
+While the development branch is getting most activity, we don't forget
+the stable branch. This release contains several fixes which we really
+wanted to get out there, so we recommend everyone to update.
We are not sure we will be able to do a development release before the
-end of this year, so we wish you already a wonderful holiday season!
+end of the year, so we wish you already a wonderful holiday season!
🎄🎉
Don't forget you can [donate to the project and personally fund several
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