2008/10/1 Sven Neumann

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The changes from version 2.4 are best described in the release notes on

http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html

If you want to compile GIMP 2.6 yourself, you can grab the tarball from ftp.gimp.org or one of its mirrors:

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/

Please note that there was a glitch in the 2.6.0 tarball on the FTP server that was corrected after a few hours. If in doubt, you can use the following information to check that you have the fixed tarball:

filename: gimp-2.6.0.tar.bz2 size: 15897821 bytes
MD5 sum: e5ac955fee8b376d431e4693027d7640

Binary packages for the various supported platforms are expected to become available over the next couple of days. The new gimp.org website will help you to locate the packages for your system:

http://gimp.org/downloads/

Thanks a lot to everyone who helped to improve GIMP.

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I just want to say congrats to everyone here, for their work... you are talented people dedicated to a beautiful - and very useful - project. I read every day mails of the gimp-dev ML, and admire many people here !

So, have a nice, sweet week... before working on 2.8 ? ;-)

On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Etienne lepercq wrote:

2008/10/1 Sven Neumann

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The changes from version 2.4 are best described in the release notes on

http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html

If you want to compile GIMP 2.6 yourself, you can grab the tarball from ftp.gimp.org or one of its mirrors:

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/

Please note that there was a glitch in the 2.6.0 tarball on the FTP server that was corrected after a few hours. If in doubt, you can use the following information to check that you have the fixed tarball:

filename: gimp-2.6.0.tar.bz2 size: 15897821 bytes
MD5 sum: e5ac955fee8b376d431e4693027d7640

Binary packages for the various supported platforms are expected to become available over the next couple of days. The new gimp.org website will help you to locate the packages for your system:

http://gimp.org/downloads/

Thanks a lot to everyone who helped to improve GIMP.

Looks great!

Thanks for providing such a neat tool!

BTW, the downloads page link below is still pointing to the 2.4.7 version.

Werner

Sven Neumann wrote:

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The changes from version 2.4 are best described in the release notes on

http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html

If you want to compile GIMP 2.6 yourself, you can grab the tarball from ftp.gimp.org or one of its mirrors:

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/

Please note that there was a glitch in the 2.6.0 tarball on the FTP server that was corrected after a few hours. If in doubt, you can use the following information to check that you have the fixed tarball:

filename: gimp-2.6.0.tar.bz2 size: 15897821 bytes
MD5 sum: e5ac955fee8b376d431e4693027d7640

Binary packages for the various supported platforms are expected to become available over the next couple of days. The new gimp.org website will help you to locate the packages for your system:

http://gimp.org/downloads/

Thanks a lot to everyone who helped to improve GIMP.

Sven Neumann ha scritto:

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
...

Congratulations to the whole GIMP Team. It looks like this will be a fantastic release: it shows great improvements and the changes "under the hood" will make the user excited about the future.

Kudos everyone.

It seems to be making people overly excided and jumping to conclusions generating anti-FUD. GIMP still only supports 8bits per channel. The day of GEGL based gimp is not today and most likely wont be 2.8 release date either. The integration will take time.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Alessandro Falappa wrote:

Sven Neumann ha scritto:

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
...

Congratulations to the whole GIMP Team. It looks like this will be a fantastic release: it shows great improvements and the changes "under the hood" will make the user excited about the future.

Kudos everyone.

-- Alessandro Falappa
web: http://www.falappa.net/

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Brendan (mailinglist@endosquid.com) wrote (in part) (on 2008-10-01 at 18:33):

released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image

Manipulation Program. The changes from version 2.4 are best described in

the release notes on http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html

In those notes it says:

Minor Changes : Added support for using online help instead of a

locally installed GIMP Help package.

I installed the Windows 2.6.0 build gimp-2.6.0-i686-setup-1.exe, ran it, closed it then installed gimp-help-2-2.4.0-eng-setup.exe (it identified the location I had put GIMP 2.6)

In Preferences I set: Help system to "user manual: Use locally installed copy" (text below says "There's a local installation of the user manual" and Help browser to use: Gimp help browser.

If I click on the [Help] button on the preferences pane (or any where else attempt [F1] or Shift+F1) I get popup warning:

The GIMP help browser plug-in appears to be missing from your

installation.

You may instead use the web browser for reading the help pages.

Clicking [Use Web Browser] changes parameter "Help browser to use:" to "Web browser" but does NOT open anything in my default browser (Portable Firefox 3)

I assume this is user-setup-error and would normally request help in gimp-users or gimpwin-users but since release is so recent thought I'd ask here.

At 03.10.2008 14:02, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 01:58 -0400, Alec Burgess wrote:

Clicking [Use Web Browser] changes parameter "Help browser to use:" to "Web browser" but does NOT open anything in my default browser (Portable Firefox 3)

The code that opens the default web-browser on Windows seems to work fine for some users, and fails for others. It would be nice if someone who knows the Win32 API could have a look at this code and try to fix it. But given the fact that there is hardly any contributions from users and developers on Windows, I don't expect this to happen ever...

Sorry to here that :) By coincidence I have built the GIMP from trunk on windows recently (patches pending). I'm getting:

help.exe-Warning: Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.4/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported

Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS?

So my guess is: at least for 2.6 this is not working for any of the windows users. As far as I know there is no GIO/win32 backend which supports http.

But it should be relatively easy to restore the old win32 specific code which used ShellExecute() to open links. That should make the web-browser work for every windows user with a properly configure system.

Hans

-------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert

As far as I know there is no GIO/win32 backend which supports http.

Http is supported in libgio itself (using the winhttp API from winhttp.dll, which is looked up at run-time, so if you lack that, it won't work). See gio/win32/gwinhttp*.c.

--tml

At 03.10.2008 15:50, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

As far as I know there is no GIO/win32 backend which supports http.

Http is supported in libgio itself (using the winhttp API from winhttp.dll, which is looked up at run-time, so if you lack that, it won't work). See gio/win32/gwinhttp*.c.

The DLL is available on my computer (xp sp3), but my GLIB version is just one week too old (beginning of August).

-------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert

At 03.10.2008 16:44, Hans Breuer wrote:

At 03.10.2008 15:50, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

As far as I know there is no GIO/win32 backend which supports http.

Http is supported in libgio itself (using the winhttp API from winhttp.dll, which is looked up at run-time, so if you lack that, it won't work). See gio/win32/gwinhttp*.c.

The DLL is available on my computer (xp sp3), but my GLIB version is just one week too old (beginning of August).

With a new enough gio it indeed works fine. I have also tried the GIMP with Jerney's installer under vista, same here: it just works for me.

Afterwards I have intentional broken the code in web-browser.c (with: url++;). When ShellExecute() failed there indeed was no error message at all.

The attached patch fixes this, but also adds a lot of hard to translate strings. Should it be commited ?

-------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert

Index: web-browser.c =================================================================== --- web-browser.c (revision 27115)
+++ web-browser.c (working copy)
@@ -120,9 +120,61 @@
browser_open_url (const gchar *url) {
#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
+ HINSTANCE hinst = ShellExecute (GetDesktopWindow(), "open", url, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW); +
+ if ((gint) hinst 32);
-
+ return TRUE;
#else

GError *error = NULL;

At 03.10.2008 20:21, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 19:37 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote:

The attached patch fixes this, but also adds a lot of hard to translate strings. Should it be commited ?

We shouldn't add new translatable messages at this point. Could you commit this to trunk without the error messages marked for translation? We can then remark them for translation after we branched and after the strings have been reviewed.

Done:

2008-10-03 Hans Breuer

* plug-ins/common/web-browser.c : when ShellExecute() is failing give the detailed (currently intentionally untranslated) error message via g_message()

-------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert

It seems that patch-2.6.1.bz2 includes patches for nonexistent files. $ LANG=C md5sum -c patch-2.6.1.bz2.md5 patch-2.6.1.bz2: OK
$ bzcat patch-2.6.1.bz2 |patch -p0 --dry-run -f |fgrep 'find' -A4 can't find file to patch at input line 1559 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -uraN gimp-2.6.0/app/gui/gimpdbusservice-glue.h gimp-2.6.1/app/gui/gimpdbusservice-glue.h --
can't find file to patch at input line 86822 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -uraN gimp-2.6.0/devel-docs/libgimpwidgets/xml/gimphruler.xml gimp-2.6.1/devel-docs/libgimpwidgets/xml/gimphruler.xml --
can't find file to patch at input line 86920 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -uraN gimp-2.6.0/devel-docs/libgimpwidgets/xml/gimpvruler.xml gimp-2.6.1/devel-docs/libgimpwidgets/xml/gimpvruler.xml --
can't find file to patch at input line 89061 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -uraN gimp-2.6.0/plug-ins/pagecurl/pagecurl-icons.h gimp-2.6.1/plug-ins/pagecurl/pagecurl-icons.h

Do I take it wrong?

Hi , thank you for reply.

Sven Neumann wrote

Just as the error message suggests, you are using the wrong -p option with the patch command. Please refer to the patch manual page or use the full tarball instead.

I don't think so.
What I exactly meant in last post is that patch-2.6.1.bz2 includes patches for these four files

app/gui/gimpdbusservice-glue.h devel-docs/libgimpwidgets/xml/gimphruler.xml devel-docs/libgimpwidgets/xml/gimpvruler.xml plug-ins/pagecurl/pagecurl-icons.h

but they are not in src tarballs of 2.6.0. (and 2.6.1 too) So I don't know what these files are ,yet I think they are unwanted.

Anyway It's not critical, I patched successfully by ignoring these four parts before last post and there is nothing problem for me now.

thanks.