On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 19:45:06 Michael Grosberg wrote:

Is there an official guide for compiling the latest development release, Gimp 2.7.1, on Linux?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 but I'm not a programmer, and the installation instructions on the gimp.org website are geared towards people who know what they are doing. Which I'm not - and thereofre they are meaningless to me. There are several guides to compiling Gimp on the web, but they all seem different and since I don't understand what I'm doing I'm afraid I'll muck something up if I choose the wrong one - or just waste my time.

Look around in ubuntu forums. I think i've seen guides for at least git builds. 10.4 is new enough that you need to build just babl, gegl and gimp from source. If the instructions you find are for git, skip any git bits, extract your sources from respective tar-s and substitute ./autogen.sh with ./configure

Alternatively, are there any plans to provide binaries to this version anytime soon?

All binaries are provided by 3rd parties. There is an ubuntu PPA already that keeps up with git. This release is most likely going to be among them.

On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 22:15:06 Michael Grosberg wrote:

Is there an official guide for compiling the latest development release, Gimp 2.7.1, on Linux?

i found this article very helpful:

phanisvara das gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 22:15:06 Michael Grosberg wrote:

Is there an official guide for compiling the latest development release, Gimp 2.7.1, on Linux?

i found this article very helpful:

thanks, but these instructions are not for complete beginners and assumes I know
stuff I don't. Also, they are fro compiling from GIT - not from a tarball.

The site is gimpuser.com

If you don't know how to unpack your tarball you might need more help

From the tutorial

Ignore the git stuff
replace ./autogen.sh with ./configure

Watch the word wrap

http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html

http://blog.bloke.com/2010/06/howto-build-gimp-2-7-1-from-source-step-by-step-ubuntu/

(uses 10.04 LTS Ubuntu)

very easy to use :)

Cameron

On 07/01/2010 04:50 AM, Michael Grosberg wrote:

thanks, but these instructions are not for complete beginners and assumes I know stuff I don't. Also, they are fro compiling from GIT - not from a tarball.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Michael Grosberg wrote:

Something to do with GTK maybe?
Or possibly with Xorg.conf? I did attempt unsuccessfully to install my tablet (which is old and apparently no longer supported by LinuxWacom)m but I don't think I did any harm to the xorg.conf file, and anyway, other apps seem to be working fine, it's just the canvases on both Gimp and Inkscape.

Any ideas?

Its a known issue at least for me with GTK. Under some obscure conditions GTK stops calling the input callback for non-extended devices, if extended devices are present. It's a really strange bug, because randomly on some gimp starts everything works, and then again its not working. Disable any extended devices that you have enabled and it should work.

On your tablet, theres a patch floating around for linuxwacom that adds the serial support back. It wasnt accepted to mainline because it broke some serial screen tablets and its creator has not fixed it. But as a theoretical way to use your old tablet again, its there.

On Friday, July 02, 2010 23:24:07 Michael Grosberg wrote:

Alexia Death gmail.com> writes:

Its a known issue at least for me with GTK. Under some obscure conditions GTK stops calling the input callback for non-extended devices, if extended devices are present. It's a really strange bug, because randomly on some gimp starts everything works, and then again its not working. Disable any extended devices that you have enabled and it should work.

Ooh, I just found out that the mouse was disabled as a pointing device! I enabled it and now everything works.

O_o This either didnt work for me, or i didn't try it... If it does actually work with the same symptoms I had, it may help tracking down the bug. Enabling mouse as an extended device has never been mandatory before and feels like a bug.

OK, last question about this release: when I try the text tool, there's a floating toolbar that hover over the top left side of the text frame. It seems like it's supposed to allow me to change the text style/size/etc on the selected text block, but it's always grayed out and I can't interact with it. The controls on the text dialog alway control the entire text block, not just the selection.

Is this a bug or the current status of the tool?

Its a bug in GTK with extended devices and I believe a direct result of your fix to your previous problem. In your case, with tablet not working anyhow, just disable any and all extended devices that seem active and it should work as any ole toolbar.