Good news for GIMP fans: After 2 long years in development the latest stable version of GIMP 2.8 has been released <a class="postlink" href="http://goo.gl/UAHtn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://goo.gl/UAHtn</a>. many fitures : Single window mode On canvas text editing Layer Groups etc.. Available to install in Ubuntu 12.04 or Kubuntu 12.04 LTS ( <a class="postlink" href="http://goo.gl/Pikn8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://goo.gl/Pikn8</a>) via a dedicated PPA sudo add-apt-repository ppatto-kesselgulasch/gimp sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gimp
Yay .. I wish I still had Ubuntu.. By the way, Otto Kesselgulasch looks like a fake-name to me as a German .. anyway, I might set up a new VM for that.
<a class="postlink" href="http://gimp.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://gimp.org</a> The binaries aren't up yet but if you know how to compile them yourself than you're all set.
A windows binary should be available soon by the official release team. I am compiling it on my own Windows machine right now.
I'm looking forward to the python plugins. Scheme is nice but a pain to learn the first time. At least in Python I know the full power at my finger tips .
Gimp 2.8 should have been available and ready to install Linux on the ARC. I do it directly pacman -S gimp waiting for the download and install .....
Compiled Gimp 2.8 on Fedora 16. Spoiler Code: #Run all commands as root user, update the system, install some prerequisite system packages #Any packages from the system which do not have a high enough version number must be compiled from source as well. #update the system and install system packages yum check-update yum update #more than likely your kernel will update so you should reboot before proceeding yum groupinstall "Development Libraries" yum groupinstall "Development Tools" yum groupinstall "Legacy Software Development" yum install wget git exiv2 exiv2-devel libspiro libspiro-devel libv4l libv4l-devel lua lua-devel enscript asciidoc v4l-utils libopenraw libopenraw-devel jasper jasper-devel graphviz graphviz-devel SDL SDL-devel librsvg2 librsvg2-devel OpenEXR OpenEXR-devel libtiff libtiff-devel libjpeg libjpeg-devel libpng libpng-devel aalib aalib-devel ghostscript ghostscript-devel webkitgtk webkitgtk-devel lcms lcms-devel libmng libmng-devel poppler poppler-devel librsvg2 librsvg2-devel libwmf libwmf-devel libXpm libXpm-devel libexif libexif-devel libgudev1 libgudev1-devel xorg-x11-server-Xvfb -y #change default build and load paths export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib cd /usr/local/src/ #clone and download required sources git clone git://git.gnome.org/babl git clone git://git.gnome.org/gegl wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.24/gtk+-2.24.10.tar.xz tar -xf gtk+-2.24.10.tar.xz wget ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/gimp-2.8.0.tar.bz2 tar -xf gimp-2.8.0.tar.bz2 #compile prerequisites and software in order cd babl ./autogen.sh ./configure make && make install cd .. cd gegl ./autogen.sh ./configure make && make install cd .. cd gtk+-2.24.10 ./configure make && make install cd .. cd gimp-2.8.0 ./configure make && make install cd ..
Windows setup now available <a class="postlink" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/GIMP%202.8.0/gimp-2.8.0-setup.exe/download" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-wi ... e/download</a>
Ubuntu, Debian apt-get install gimp openSUSE yast -i gimp or zypper in gimp, depending on the distribution version. Fedora yum install gimp Mandriva urpmi gimp GIMP 2.8 ready for all platform Spoiler
Soon Gimp-2.9 will arrive with precision 16, 32 bit support.(it's already been tested) Also it will make changes like blur and smudge available on INDEXED images. Index transparency. Gimp-2.10 is supposed to have a seamless paste tool.And a new warp transform tool to boot! And newer releases should be a lot faster now that Gimp is pretty much totally ported to GEGL. Now Gimp-3.0 should have the newest GTK-3 and most plugins will probably get broken because of this. We shall see. Happy days!
Maffe i can get the theme working by just copying the "Aurora Midnight" gtkrc file to the UserFolder\.gimp-2.8 folder overwriting the existing gtkrc file. BUT the loaders and roundish type buttons will not work because the dll's aren't compiled with the correct version of GTK libraries. My Gimp-2.8
I found this: Spoiler Edit: After thinking about it, why isn't the navigation thing under Windows > Dockable dialogs, along with the layer tab, brush tab, font tab, etc.
It does have navigation in the dockable dialogs. All you need to do is dock it as i did. BUT it is handy to use as a new view image also.(Without docking it) As the new Gimp-2.8 single window mode doesn't allow a new view ...yet. That is coming in the next release i believe.
Maffe you can download a theme named DarkNice and it works in Gimp-2.8. Changing the menus to image bg's is also now possible with pixmap. Here is the link to download the 15 available theme folders. <a class="postlink" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36057148/GTK2%20Themes%20for%20GIMP%202.8.zip" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36057148/GTK2%2 ... %202.8.zip</a> More information on image for menus testing can be found here. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4260&hilit=gimp+2.8+themes" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 2.8+themes</a> DarkNice setup information can be found here. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4358&hilit=gimp+2.8+themes" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 2.8+themes</a>
