Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding use-event-history to 2.6.12...is it too late?

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

Too late, but you would have to wait longer for 2.6.13 than
you will have to wait for 2.8.

--Mitch

On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 23:31 +0100, Ragnar Brynjúlfsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I know that 2.6.12 is the final 2.6 release, so this might come a
> little late, but would it be possible to add this patch (
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=dbf844c012894166e312470f0d98560d5e426613
> ) to the official release.
> 
>  It fixes an issue with Gimp on Ubuntu 11.10 (and probably other
> distros too) when using Wacom tablets, where at random times, a line
> get's drawn to the edge of the canvas and back, from wherever you're
> drawing. It's explained in more detail here (
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661872 ). This actually
> makes Gimp quite problematic to draw with in Ubuntu 11.10.
> 
>  It also seems to fix the issue that when you sometimes hit save, the
> save dialog does not respond to input from the wacom pen, and you have
> to click on the canvas and back to the save window to activate it
> (happens maybe 1 in 5-10 times).
> 
>  I added the patch manually to the 2.6.12 source code from gimp.org
> (MD5 =  9f876ee63a0c4a4c83f50f32fb3bbe63), and it seems to work just
> fine, without introducing any other issues.
> 
>  Oh...if the Gimp Ubuntu maintainer is on this list, please add this
> patch when you update Gimp to 2.6.12 in the Ubuntu repos. :)
> 
>  This seems to no longer be an issue in 2.7.* releases. At least I was
> unable to recreate it there.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Ragnar
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