Re: [Gimp-user] Ubuntu version

[Dave Kimble <dave kimble gmx com>]

Thanks for your reply.
 
The downloads page should at least have mentioned that,
and given the magic four commands:

sudo apt-get autoremove gimp gimp-plugin-registry
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

In v2.6.12 Edit > Preferences > Toolbox doesn't seem to offer that feature.
Only 3 checkboxes for the Appearance (see attached screenshot)
V2.8 has a Tools Configuration section, which is just what I wanted.

"Counter-intuitive" was my polite term for "horrible", but I suppose some people might like it.
v2.8 gives the option for Single Window, which I regard as the intuitive way of doing it -
1 app = 1 window

All happy now :-)

On 1/08/2012 17:19, Olivier wrote:

2012/8/1 Dave Kimble <dave kimble gmx com>:

On the GIMP home page it says GIMP v2.8 was released on 2012-05-03.
On the downloads page it says for Ubuntu use the Ubuntu Software Centre.
That only has v2.6.12 .
There doesn't seem to be any other way of getting it.

Google is your friend: try "Ubuntu GIMP 2.8" and you'll get several
simple explanations about how to upgrade to GIMP 2.8, depending on
your version of Ubuntu.

I want the latest version because various posts indicate the
counter-intuitive behaviour of Toolbox Window etc has changed, and it seems
pointless to complain if it has already been fixed.

My question on v2.6.12 is: since there are only 3 tools in the Toolbox that
I ever use,
and no buttons to bring up the Brightness/Contrast dialog etc,
how do I change the contents of Toolbox ?
In most apps, for example Firefox, you have View > Toolbars > Customise
and can then drag and drop the buttons you use regularly from/to a pool of
buttons.

I thought there must be at least a plug-in that does that, because it is so
obvious,
but the plug-ins registry doesn't seem to have anything like that under
Toolbox or Toolbar.

Am I missing something ?

Yes indeed. Call Image: Edit -> Preferences and choose Toolbox. There
you can decide the exact contents of your Toolbox. By the way, it was
the same in version 2.6 and even 2.4, and what is this
counter-intuitive behaviour you mention?

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