Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

we are glad to announce the availability of the first pre-release for GIMP 2.2. More than half a year after GIMP 2.0 saw the light of day, we are now close to finish work on it's successor, GIMP 2.2. You can download a first pre-release from ftp.gimp.org and it's mirrors:

http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors

This preview should have all the features that 2.2.0 will have. However since this code hasn't seen a lot of testing yet there are certainly bugs. If you find any, make sure you report them at bugzilla.gnome.org (after checking that it isn't reported already).

The GIMP Wiki has a list of changes from GIMP 2.0 to GIMP 2.2:

http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/WhatsNew2

I had not noticed this before, but when I compare gimp 2.0 and 2.2 preferences, it seems I can't find anymore the following two options: "enable tearoff menus" checkbox and "open recent menu size". They used to be in the "interface" category, in a "menus" box.

How can I access these preferences now? Do I have to go in the text config files?

Regards,

Olivier.

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

olivier ripoll writes:

I had not noticed this before, but when I compare gimp 2.0 and 2.2 preferences, it seems I can't find anymore the following two options: "enable tearoff menus" checkbox and "open recent menu size". They used to be in the "interface" category, in a "menus" box.

We removed these options since we found them not to be important enough to clutter the already very overloaded preference dialog. This change has been announced on the mailing list and we gave people time to complain.

May I suggest that it could be added to the 2.2 final Changelog ? Most of the users are not subscribed to the list, and I suspect that the tearoff menus preference is quite user-specific (I mean I do think many users have it on, and also many have it off). By the way, this preference was not "migrated" from my 2.0 profile when I first launched gimp 2.2, although I chose to migrate those setting in the "first use wizard" (I don't know its real name).

How can I access these preferences now? Do I have to go in the text config files?

Yes. See the gimprc manpage for details.

Thanks.

Olivier.

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

By the way, this preference was not "migrated" from my 2.0 profile when I first launched gimp 2.2.

I don't see why it shouldn't have been migrated. Migration here basically means copying the user directory over. Unless we made incompatible changes to the gimprc format (which I am not aware of), all values that you changed from the defaults in 2.0 should be used in 2.2. Perhaps have a look at the gimprc files to see if it's there?

I confirm there definitely is a bug in the migration of gimprc:

When migrating, the copying of all the files from the .gimp-2.0 directory works fine, but when gimp is started (after pressing the continue button in the user-install dialog), gimprc is overwritten with an empty file.

Suspecting that my old gimprc could have been corrupted for some reason, I have done the following steps:

1- delete both the .gimp-2.0 and .gimp-2.2 directories. 2- compile and install gimp 2.0.6
3- launch 2.0.6, changed a few options (small theme, no tear-off menu). The resulting gimprc is the following:

# GIMP gimprc #
# This is your personal gimprc file. Any variable defined in this file takes
# precedence over the value defined in the system-wide gimprc: # /usr/etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc
# Most values can be set within The GIMP by changing some options in the # Preferences dialog.

(tile-cache-size 128M) (monitor-xresolution 90.000000)
(monitor-yresolution 90.000000)
(tearoff-menus no)
(theme "Small")
(web-browser "ephiphany %s")

# end of gimprc

4- quit gimp 2.0.6 5- launch gimp 2.2-pre1
6- in the user-install, choose to migrate. 7- check that the files are correctly copied. The gimprc is the same as the 2.0.6 one above.
8- press the continue button that results in launching the gimp 9- check the gimprc, it is now this:

# GIMP gimprc #
# This is your personal gimprc file. Any variable defined in this file takes
# precedence over the value defined in the system-wide gimprc: # /usr/local/etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc
# Most values can be set within The GIMP by changing some options in the # Preferences dialog.

# end of gimprc

10- look at gimp: the theme is the default one, tearoff menus are on.

Regards,

Olivier.

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

olivier ripoll writes:

Suspecting that my old gimprc could have been corrupted for some reason, I have done the following steps:

You certainly did this from a console window and watched for any output that might help to isolate the problem, didn't you?

Sven

No, I am too dumb, was too tired and went to bed. But I will do it this weekend (or tonight if I have time) and report ASAP.

Regards,

Olivier.

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

olivier ripoll writes:

Suspecting that my old gimprc could have been corrupted for some reason, I have done the following steps:

You certainly did this from a console window and watched for any output that might help to isolate the problem, didn't you?

Sven

the error message is :

GIMP: Error while parsing '/home/olive/.gimp-2.2/pluginrc' in line 20: unexpected number `3', expected string constant - fatal parse error

The pluginrc being 325 KiB, I do not send it via email (my modem is 28.8KBps).

Regards.

Olivier