Hi, Marc kept stating that there are no user-visible changes in GIMP-1.3. I really don't know how much time he spent with GIMP-1.3 but I doubt that he is aware of the amount of changes that have been made. To clarify things a bit and to justify a 2.0 version number for this release, I made a compressed version of the NEWS file as found in the 1.3 tree. So here's a list of (mostly user-visible) changes. I'm sure I still missed quite a few things... What's new in GIMP-1.3 ====================== - Extended the concept of linked items to all kind of transformations - Rewritten and much improved text tool (not quite finished yet) - Rewritten and improved paths tool (not quite finished yet) - Modular display filters and color selectors - Popup selectors for brushes, gradients, palettes and the like - Improved session managment - Fullscreen mode for the image window - MNG saving - PSD saving - Allow to create channels from an image's color component - Added color pickers to levels tool for easier color correction - Much improved undo system that adapts to the memory requirements of the undo steps - Hooks for plug-in debugging - Converted the API reference to DocBook XML - New colorblindness display filter - Added SphereDesigner plug-in - Portability fixes for 64bit platforms - Handle large swap files (>2GB) - Optional menubar in the image window - Added more widgets to libgimp (GimpColorScale, GimpPickButton, ...) - Added a color selector dock - Added new layer modes (Softlight, Grain Extract, Grain Merge) - Added Gimp-Python - Improved UI of color adjustment tools - Added GimpSelectionEditor, a view on the current selection - Cleaned up and improved most plug-ins - Support tile cache > 4GB on machines with 64bit long integers - Added support for large files (> 2GB) - Temporary switch to the Move tool when Space is pressed - Added mnemonics all over the place - Adopted the Thumbnail Managing Standard - Added shortcuts to crop layer or image to selection boundary - Improved tool options and made them dockable - Cleanup of brush, gradient, pattern and palette PDB functions - Allow to choose interpolation for individual transformations - New layer mask initialization modes - Scanline conversion (Path to selection etc.) changed to use libart - Improved preferences dialog - Themeable user interface - Dockable windows - New tool icons - New RGB->Indexed quantizer - Added Color Erase paint mode - Added SF-DIRNAME script-fu parameter - Ported to GTK+-2.x - Rewrittten and improved almost all of the GUI - Cleaned up the core a lot. The app directory is now broken up into subdirectories that define subsystems with defined dependencies - Seperated GUI from core functionality in almost all places - The core object system does not depend on GTK+ any longer - Split up libgimp and libgimpui in a bunch of smaller utility libraries to be used by plug-ins and the core Sven
