Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:12:21 +0100
From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?UmFwaGHrbA==?= Quinet <quinet@xxxxxxxxxx>
With the release of 1.2.4-pre2, we are getting closer to the final
1.2.4. Like I did a few months ago when 1.2.3 was released, I
searched Bugzilla and the various ChangeLog files in order to get a
list of significant changes between the future 1.2.4 release and the
previous version.
Here are the changes that I identified so far. There are many other
things mentioned in the ChangeLog, but I think that these are the most
significant ones. I am even thinking about deleting the last two or
three items because the list is already a bit long.
* The print plug-in is now using libgimpprint-4.2, which is
distributed as a separate package (bug #80941). It is more
stable and more portable than previous versions (bug #87428). If
you do not have libgimpprint on your system, you have to download
it from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ and install it before
building The GIMP, else use --disable-print.
I guess this means that we (Gimp-print) should start figuring out how
to factor this out of our distribution.
On another note, someone's working on a more generalized printing GUI
based on the Print plugin code. This may not make it into 4.2, but if
it does the result will be that there will be a libgimpprintui, and
the Print plugin will shrink rather dramatically in code volume. From
an operational standpoint, it would most likely share settings with
any other application that used this library.
--
Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
