Too late, but you would have to wait longer for 2.6.13 than you will have to wait for 2.8. --Mitch On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 23:31 +0100, Ragnar Brynjúlfsson wrote: > Hi, > > I know that 2.6.12 is the final 2.6 release, so this might come a > little late, but would it be possible to add this patch ( > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=dbf844c012894166e312470f0d98560d5e426613 > ) to the official release. > > It fixes an issue with Gimp on Ubuntu 11.10 (and probably other > distros too) when using Wacom tablets, where at random times, a line > get's drawn to the edge of the canvas and back, from wherever you're > drawing. It's explained in more detail here ( > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661872 ). This actually > makes Gimp quite problematic to draw with in Ubuntu 11.10. > > It also seems to fix the issue that when you sometimes hit save, the > save dialog does not respond to input from the wacom pen, and you have > to click on the canvas and back to the save window to activate it > (happens maybe 1 in 5-10 times). > > I added the patch manually to the 2.6.12 source code from gimp.org > (MD5 = 9f876ee63a0c4a4c83f50f32fb3bbe63), and it seems to work just > fine, without introducing any other issues. > > Oh...if the Gimp Ubuntu maintainer is on this list, please add this > patch when you update Gimp to 2.6.12 in the Ubuntu repos. :) > > This seems to no longer be an issue in 2.7.* releases. At least I was > unable to recreate it there. > > Thanks, > > Ragnar > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
