hi, i have been playing with many generations of TheGIMP this morning. i compared the gimp's ability to make nice strokes and i found the results to be interesting and revealing: http://carol.gimp.org/files/stroke.png can something be done to make stroking be at least as nice as it used to be? i was blaming libart, but it was explained to me that this was not the cause. simon is busy doing other things on the irc and such, perhaps we need a volunteer to help? raphael, you have experience with taking over projects, perhaps you have some time. carol