GIMP 2.7.3 beinhaltet den neuesten Code der GIMP-Entwicklerversion 2.7, darunter eine fast fertige Version des Einzelfenstermodus und anderer UI-Verbesserungen.

Außerdem gibt es eine Reihe weiterer Neuerungen, zB Cairo zum Laden von PDF-Dateien, das neue Käfig-Transformations-Werkzeug funktioniert besser, und einfaches Auswählen von Ebeneninhalten mit dem Verschieben-Werkzeug innerhalb von Ebenengruppen.

Der Quellcode für GIMP 2.7.3 kann wie immer in unserem Download-Bereich heruntergeladen werden. Windows-Builds wird es vermutlich bald auf partha.com geben (möglicherweise fälschlich als GIMP 2.7.4 gekennzeichnet)

Änderungen in GIMP 2.7.3:

UI:

• Use GimpSpinScales instead of scale entries in all dockable widgets
• Allow the spin scale to control a range larger than its scale’s range
• Implement RTL mode in GimpSpinScale
• Add lots of tooltips to tool options
• Allow to drop more things to the empty image window, and simply
  create new images from them
• Cage tool: allow to add handle to the cage when clicking on an edge
• Cage tool: allow to remove selected handles from the cage by hitting delete
• Remember column widths in multi-column dock windows
• Support starting GIMP in single-window mode
• When the brush is shared among paint tools, also share all
  brush-modifying paint options
• Use ALT+number and ALT+Tab shortcuts to navigate between images
  in both single- and multi-window mode
• Make ‘Export to’ always activatable and fall back to ‘Export…’ if
  no export target has been set yet
• In single-window mode, add new dockable dialogs to the image window
  instead of in a new window
• When switching on single-window mode, put docks in the image window
  depending on what side of the window they originally had
• When switching off single-window mode, distribute dock windows
  better
• Add a canvas item for the transform grid, fixing a major speed
  regression, and add the same guides options as in the rectangle tools
• Don’t unmaximize the single-window mode image window when closing
  images
• Resurrect the “You can drop dockable dialogs here” help string
  below the toolbox
• Make pick-and-move with the Move Tool work for layers in a layer
  group

Core:

• Add GimpMotionBuffer which abstracts away stroke smoothing behind
  a simple API and takes it out of GimpDisplayShell
• Add a GimpIdTable utility class
• Add a GimpDockContainer interface
• Add a GimpSessionManaged interface
• Add GimpCanvasRectangleGuides which makes the rectangle tool’s
  guides draw properly

Libgimp:

• Make libgimp depend on GdkPixbuf
• Add API to create layers from cairo surfaces
• Make it impossible to include individual files from any GIMP
  library. This was always forbidden and designed so it most
  probably breaks, but now it reliably breaks using #error
• Deprecate the “set_sensitive” logic and use g_object_bind_property()

Plug-ins:

• Use poppler’s cairo API to load PDFs, the pixbuf API is removed
• Port screenshot from GdkPixbuf to cairo
• Fix the annoying parser build warnings in imagemap
• Add a check-for-deprecated-procedures-in-script-fu make target
• Update libpng code to not use deprecated API (file-mng and file-png)
• Add an Item class to pygimp
• Correct/update some labels and defaults in the JPEG plug-in’s save dialog UI
• Fix “Bug 596410* gimp-image-get-filename returns NULL for imported files”

Developer documentation:

• Many updates

Source and build system:

• Make cairo a global dependency, starting at libgimpcolor
• Require poppler >= 0.12.4
• Remove gimp-remote for good, it has been disabled for years

General:

• Some more undeprecations now that we use GTK+ 2.24
• Fix lots of warnings that are new in -Wall in GCC 4.6
• Lots of bug fixes and cleanup
• Lots of translation updates