ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.6.0

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.

2008/10/1 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>

> 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.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gimp-developer mailing list
> Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
>

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 <sven@gimp.org>
>
> > 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
<alex.falappa@gmail.com>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/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gimp-developer mailing list
> Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
>

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.

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...


Sven

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)
+ {
+ const char *err;
+
+ switch ((gint) hinst)
+ {
+ case 0 :
+ err = _("The operating system is out of memory or resources.");
+ break;
+ case ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND :
+ err = _("The specified file was not found.");
+ break;
+ case ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND :
+ err = _("The specified path was not found.");
+ break;
+ case ERROR_BAD_FORMAT :
+ err = _("The .exe file is invalid (non-Microsoft Win32 .exe or error in .exe image).");
+ break;
+ case SE_ERR_ACCESSDENIED :
+ err = _("The operating system denied access to the specified file.");
+ break;
+ case SE_ERR_ASSOCINCOMPLETE :
+ err = _("The file name association is incomplete or invalid.");
+ break;
+ case SE_ERR_DDEBUSY :
+ err = _("DDE transaction busy");
+ break;
+ case SE_ERR_DDEFAIL :
+ err = _("The DDE transaction failed.");
+ break;
+ case SE_ERR_DDETIMEOUT :
+ err = _("The DDE transaction timed out.");
+ break;
+ case SE_ERR_DLLNOTFOUND :
+ err = _("The specified DLL was not found.");
+ break;
+ case SE_ERR_NOASSOC :
+ err = _("There is no application associated with the given file name extension.");
+ break;
+ case SE_ERR_OOM :
+ err = _("There was not enough memory to complete the operation.");
+ break;
+ case SE_ERR_SHARE:
+ err = _("A sharing violation occurred.");
+ break;
+ default :
+ err = _("Unknown Windows error.");
+ }
+ g_message (_("Failed to open the url '%s'\n%s"), url, err);
+ return FALSE;
+ }

- return ((gint) ShellExecute (GetDesktopWindow(), "open", url, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW) > 32);
-
+ return TRUE;
#else

GError *error = NULL;

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.


Sven

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 <hans@breuer.org>

* 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

GIMP 2.6.1 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. The
source can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org or one of the mirrors listed
at http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors

Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become
available soon; please check the Downloads section on www.gimp.org.
Rumours are that the 2.6.1 installer for Windows will include a version
of GTK+ that has the utility window hint implemented, keeping the GIMP
toolbox and docks above the image window and out of the taskbar.


Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.0 to GIMP 2.6.1
=================================================

* Bugs fixed:

555587 – PSD file crashes PSD plug-in
555222 – PSD Load Plugin: unsupported compression mode
555362 – gimp-remote is not working properly
555280 – some gif files will not be open
554890 – JPEG Save Options Dialog does not remember
554966 – Gimp crashes creating a new image using a template
554785 – Compile failure on uri-backend-libcurl
554646 – Opening Help crashes GIMP with lqr-plugin installed
553534 – centering issues after image scaling and setting zoom
554898 – Compile failure on uri-backend-wget.c

* Updated translations:

Belarusian (be)
Catalan (ca)
Finnish (fi)
French (fr)
Japanese (ja)
Macedonian (mk)
Punjab (pa)
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
Romanian (ro)
Slovenian (sl)
Swedish (sv)

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,

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 09:49 +0900, tks wrote:
> 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?

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.


Sven

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.