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