Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.7.5 released

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Windows, you need to include directx while building Gimp. You can
get the directx sdk from Microsoft.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Alexia Death <alexiadeath gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wdaemon is pretty much obsolete in modern linux distributions. Only
> thing that does not do hotplug yet is GTK2 and the requirement of
> restarting gimp after you plug in your tablet and keeping it plugged
> in while GIMP is  running is not that onerous to justify using wdaemon
> in most cases.
>
> The original poster actually already got his answers for IRC I
> believe. There should be no tablet regressions between 2.7.4 and 2.7.5
> on Linux. On windows, at least the initial build failed to pick up any
> tablets at all for me, reason is yet unknown.
>
> If you need to build your own gtk, do not forget --with-xinput
> parameter on linux, there is probably a comparable flag for windows.
> Without it your freshly built GTK wont have any tablet support and
> extended devices remain grayed out or not there at all.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Ragnar Brynjúlfsson <ragtag ragtag net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I don't know how Linux Mint sets up it's tablet, but in the past
>> I've used wdaemon (
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/linuxwacom/index.php?title=Wdaemon
>> ), to make hot-plugging of wacom tablets work under CentOS 4/5. It
>> basically creates a virtual tablet that is connected all the time, and
>> then captures the tablet when you connect it and uses it in place of
>> the virtual tablet. This means, that to the system, the tablet is
>> never disconnected.
>>
>>  Isn't this an issue with the X server, and not GIMP or GTK+?
>>
>> Ragnar
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:54 PM,  <jfrazierjr nc rr com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ---- Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>>GIMP 2.7.5 has been released. This is the last development snapshot in
>>>>the unstable 2.7 series that leads to 2.8. Only release candidates and
>>>>the 2.8 release will follow.
>>>
>>>>For a complete list of changes since 2.7.4 please see the "Changes"
>>>>section below. Also see the release notes of the 2.7 series at
>>>>http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a section of the release notes which discusses tablets and one
>>> or more bugs in GTK+:
>>>
>>> "GIMP 2.8 relies on a newer version of GTK+2 that unfortunately has
>>> partially broken support for graphics tablets such as Wacom. If your
>>> graphic tablet doesn't work in GIMP 2.8 as it should, we recommend
>>> downgrading to 2.6 until we release GIMP 3.0 that relies on GTK+3 which
>>> has fully functional support for advanced input devices."
>>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone point to the specific(or multiple) bug details?  Does 2.7.5
>>> require a greater version of GTK+ compared to 2.7.4?   The reason I
>>> ask is that of course I have a tablet and had some issues with it not
>>> working after unplugging/re-plugging(greyed out in Extended Input
>>> Devices even after reboot).   I did end up doing two things at the time
>>> and one of them ended up fixing the issue with some thoughts thrown out
>>> by people on the IRC channel:
>>>
>>> 1) rebooted with only tablet plugged up(ie, disconnected my mouse which
>>> was NOT plugged in when the OS, Linux Mint 12, was installed.
>>>
>>> 2) recompiled gtk+(had to download and compile since distro version
>>> was less than required.. not sure what version I grabbed though) and
>>> added the option to ./configure for, not quite sure of the name and
>>> can't check right now, but something like --with_xinput or something
>>> like that...Which I am fairly sure I did NOT do the first time.
>>>
>>> 3) recompiled gimp 2.7.4(taken from git the day after 2.7.4 was released).
>>>
>>> This ended up fixing the problem.   Needless to say, I have not
>>> dis-connected my tablet again, so I don't know for sure if the issue
>>> would come back or not...   At this point, my tablet is working perfectly
>>> and while I would like to upgrade, I don't want to break the tablet again...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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