Moin, slowly but steadily the state of GIMP 2.3 is reaching a point where it can be released as 2.4. I would like to point out some showstoppers in the hope that we can get some help with them. There is also the list of bugs on the 2.4 milestone in Bugzilla and this mail somewhat overlaps with that. But it also mentions a few things that are not in Bugzilla (but probably should be). Here's a small list of outstanding items for GIMP 2.4, from the top of my head, incomplete and subject to discussion: Finish rectangle tools The rewritten rectangle tools (rect and ellipse select as well as crop) are getting better, but there are still some regressions (mainly in the Crop tool, see Bugzilla) and the tool options still need an overhaul. Would be nice if we could come up with a decent tool options UI proposal, then implement it. Finish color management Main feature missing here is giving the display filters access to the image's color profile. As soon as that is implemented, we should have a prepress professional review the functionality. I would also like to further improve the color management preferences. In this case it seems like a good idea to try to get something that resembles the Photoshop color management configuration in terms of terminology and policies. Finish healing brush The healing brush is a really nice feature but it was never completed. Currently it somewhat works, but only if you use it as a stamp, not if you paint with it. That behaviour is so vastly different from all other painting tools, I don't think we want to ship this with 2.4 unless it gets changed. The change shouldn't be too difficult, I hope. Instead of processing the pixels directly, the tool should act like the Clone tool until you release the mouse button. Then it should process the painted area and do the healing magic. In order to get this implemented, it may be necessary to look into optimizing the healing algorithm. Would be nice to get a small benchmark for it. Even better if the benchmark also acted as a regression test. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
