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- THIS IS A PREVIEW RELEASE FOR TESTING PURPOSES
- ==============================================
-
- This is a preview release of GIMP 2.2 which will replace GIMP 2.0 as
- the stable GIMP. This is not yet the final release but it should have
- all the features that 2.2.0 will have. This code hasn't seen a lot of
- testing yet so 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).
-
- Please do not install this pre-releae of GIMP 2.2 into the same prefix
- as GIMP 2.0. It would overwrite most of the GIMP 2.0 installation. To
- install in parallel to 2.0, please use a different prefix which is not
- in your default library search path. If you wish to replace GIMP 2.0
- with this pre-release, then please remove the GIMP 2.0 installation
- before installing this software.
-
- The GIMP 2.2 plug-in API is fully backward compatible to GIMP 2.0.
- Plug-ins for GIMP 2.0 should continue to work and don't need to be
- recompiled. We do however hope that plug-in authors will update their
- plug-ins for GIMP 2.2 and adapt the GUI changes we did with this
- version.
-
- It might turn out that we have to do some late changes to the newly
- added API before the final 2.2.0 release, so don't consider the API
- strictly frozen yet. The API is however guaranteed to be backward
- compatible (source and binary) with the GIMP 2.0 API. If you find that
- your 2.0 plug-in break when used with the GIMP 2.2 libraries, or if
- you cannot compile a GIMP 2.0 plug-in against the GIMP 2.2 header
- files, please report that as a bug.
-
- If you want to hack on The GIMP, please read the file HACKING. For
- detailed installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
-
-
- 1. Web Resources
- ================
-
- The GIMP's home page is at:
-
- http://www.gimp.org/
-
- Please be sure to visit this site for information, documentation,
- tutorials, news, etc. All things GIMP-ish are available from there.
-
- The automated plug-in registry is located at:
-
- http://registry.gimp.org/
-
- There you can get the latest versions of plug-ins, using a convenient
- forms-based interface.
-
- The latest version of The GIMP can be found at:
-
- http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
-
-
- 2. Mailing Lists
- ================
-
- We have several mailing lists dedicated to GIMP user and development
- discussion. There is more info at
-
- https://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/<listname>
-
- with <listname> replaced by "gimp-announce", "gimp-user", "gimp-win-users"
- or "gimp-developer" (without the quotes, of course) depending on the list
- you want to subscribe to. Links to the mailing list archives can be
- found at the same addresses as given above.
-
- Gimp-announce is a low-traffic list with announcements about new
- releases of GIMP and plug-ins. Gimp-user is a mailing list dedicated
- to user problems, hints and tips, discussion of cool effects, etc.
- Gimp-developer is oriented to GIMP core and plug-in developers. Most
- people will only want to be subscribed to gimp-user. If you want to
- help develop The GIMP, the gimp-developer mailing list is a good
- starting point.
-
- There is also a mailing list, "gimpwin-users", dedicated to users of the
- Win32 port. To subscribe, send an empty message to
-
- gimpwin-users-subscribe@egroups.com
-
- You can also use the web interface at
- http://www.egroups.com/group/gimpwin-users/. Note that as this mailing
- list is hosted on egroups.com, the messages from the list contain
- relatively unintrusive and easily ignored advertisements at the
- end. But if you are absolutely allergic to ads, don't subscribe.
-
-
- 3. IRC
- ======
-
- And finally, for the real junkies, there is an IRC channel devoted to
- the GIMP. On Byxnet (a private mostly-GIMP network) there is #gimp.
- Many of the developers hang out there. One of the Byxnet servers are:
-
- irc.gimp.org:6667
-
-
- 4. Customizing
- ==============
-
- The look of GIMP's interface can be customized like any other GTK app
- by editing the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file or by using "themes" (ready-made
- customizations). For downloadable themes and further details, see
- http://gtk.themes.org. Additionally, GIMP reads ~/.gimp-2.2/gtkrc so
- you can have settings that only apply to The GIMP.
-
- Included is a set of keybindings similar to those in Adobe Photoshop.
- You can find them in the ps-menurc file. To use them, copy this file
- to ~/.gimp-2.2/menurc. You can also manually change the keybindings to
- any of your choice by editing ~/.gimp-2.2/menurc.
-
-
- Have fun,
-
- Spencer Kimball
- Peter Mattis
- Federico Mena
- Manish Singh
- Sven Neumann
- Michael Natterer
- Dave Neary
-