GIMP 2.6 Released

Enselic writes "The GIMP developers are proud to announce the release of GIMP 2.6. The release notes start with: 'GIMP 2.6 is an important release from a development point of view. It features changes to the user interface addressing some often received complaints, and a tentative integration of GEGL, the graph based image processing library that will eventually bring high bit-depth and non-destructive editing to GIMP.' The notes go on to say the toolbox menubar has been removed, the toolbox and docks now are utility windows, it's now possible to pan beyond the image border, the freehand select tool has been enhanced to support polygonal selections, and much more."

Comments

Re:It really didn't have this?

[Spatial]

-1 troll? I was comparing it with a program from the 1980s which has this feature, just as a point of interest. I know it's open source so I'm just as much to blame as anyone for the lack of it; blaming 'the developers' was intended as a joke.

Re:I just got 2.4!

[MadUndergrad]

Quick, someone call the waaahhhhhmbulance! Another poor soul who has got a rod stuck so far up his ass that he finds the acronym "GIMP" embarrassing and unconscionable!

Re:I just got 2.4!

[Plunky]

Er, I would argue that the biggest difference is that "latex" is a compound that many things besides fetish clothes are made out of, whereas every meaning of "gimp" is negative.

GNU Image Manipulation Program

don't see any negative meanings there.. if you do, perhaps its you that is the problem?

Re:I just got 2.4!

[knarf]

That is a pretty silly reason to refrain from using an application. If this program fits your class but you are (easily...) offended by the name, just change it. Or, better still, get over it. A name is a name, nothing more. What is it that you are afraid of? Lawsuits? Ridicule?

Re:No native OS X support?

[Chris Tucker]

Fame is so fleeting!

To go from "Insightful"(2) to "Offtopic" (0).

Truly, the league of OSS fanboys will not permit even the slightest criticism of their beloved free as in beer playthings.

A year or so ago, I did have X11 installed in Mac OS, specifically so I could use GIMP. Seriously, the developers needn't have bothered with their so-called OS X version.

It both sucked AND blew! The user interface was an abomination. I was not greatly impressed.

As I said previously, Graphic Converter, with its PS plug in compatibility blows GIMP away, tracks down the bloody remains, pisses all over the bloody remains, reloads, and blows the bloody, piss-soaked remains away. AGAIN.

I can't imagine GIMP being any better under Linux or any other OS.

Remember, boys and girls of the Penguin Patrol, anything free is worth exactly what you paid for it.