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Gimp 2.8 Finally Released
Cryophallion writes "After many years of development, GIMP 2.8 is finally released. Among its features: the oft-desired single-window mode, layer groups, and many other massive improvements, including some of the GIMP UI team's work. This might be the release that helps make The GIMP a much more user friendly experience for newcomers, and has features that are rivaling those of certain exceptionally expensive commercial programs. While the porting of GEGL is still ongoing (and recently reported to have made massive advances made), this is a major step forward for one of the premier open source projects." Here are the official release notes.
Looks like Windows installer isn't quite ready yet
(Still on version 2.6.12, as per: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html)
Warning: non native English speaker here.
I didn't know gimp was an offensive word. Do children recognize it as offensive? Is it because it sounds like "chimp"? Are monkeys offensive?
'Gimp' is a perjorative for disabled people.
It's an offensive slang term for handicapped people. And it speaks volumes about the marketing ability of geeks.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
There is a release candidate for 2.8 here (bottom of the page): http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html
The Add under the article leads to a site wrapping Gimp with Crapware, toolbars and other installers. here is a screenshot of the ad, don't download it from Download-nation.com!
Did you ever use it in the pre-1.0 days, when there wasn't yet support for layers? You had to open each "layer" entity as a separate file in a separate window, and then it would let you combine/multiply/divide/etc between multiple files to come up with a composite. Now, THAT was a lot of windows to keep track of.
gimp Noun: 1. Twisted silk or cotton with cord or wire running through it, used chiefly in upholstery. 2. offensive. A physically handicapped or lame person.
It used to have that connotation. Then the movie Pulp Fiction came out. Now Gimp is associated with leather bound masochistic homosexuals...
boss to actually consider it as an alternative to MSPaint
Of course after using GIMP for a minute, the (almost guaranteed) reaction is going to be "fuck this, MSPaint will do..."
I've started recommending Paint.NET for people who need a minimal image editor.
Fear is the mind killer.
Yes, so why is the news being posted now? It seems like terrible marketing to release the news on huge news sources when only about 2% of people are actually able to try the new version. The large majority of GIMP users are on WIndows. I think it's partly because gimpusers.com posted the news when the saw the source on the FTP before GIMP actually announced the release.
The GIMP developers' response was this:
Not a release until we say so.
Truly yours, GIMP developers
P.S. And please don't make us think of evil things like banning your IP for FTP access. Spreading the news is great. Doing it before an official announcement is evil. It's our right to reserve a certain level of surprise. Have some respect.
Your comment does not make sense.
Sure it does. On quality operating systems with well designed windowing systems, there is a program called a "window manager" whose job it is to decorate and arrange application windows as the user sees fit.
Well behaved applications would bring up lots of independent windows since they understood that the user knows best and has chosen a windows manager to suit.
Then came a raft of awful window managers designed to emulate popular but less well designed operating systems. Along with that came lots of whining about the GIMP since it wasn't so easy to use if the user chose a window manager whic was incapable of managing windows in a sane way.
To stem the flow of bitter griping, the GIMP developers ended up having to combine all the windows together into one big window, and then provide user interface elements to allow users to manipulate these subwindows. This stops the poor quality window managers from making a hash of things.
In other words, the GIMP has now taken over the role of the window manager.
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