Comments on Martin Nordholts' GIMP Blog: Multi-column dock windows and 2.8 schedule

Any news about release GIMP 2.8?

2011-12-26T12:28:38.746+01:00

Any news about release GIMP 2.8?

That's way the bestest asnewr so far! That sav...

2011-08-09T05:04:09.720+02:00

That's way the bestest asnewr so far! That saves me. Thanks for being so snsieble!

As seen in Corel X5 i think that it would be usefu...

2011-01-05T11:36:27.562+01:00

As seen in Corel X5 i think that it would be useful to have a good interoperability between gimp and inkscape. Is there a chance?

See my latest comment in my latest blog post. Unfo...

2010-12-28T14:54:47.278+01:00

See my latest comment in my latest blog post. Unfortunately, GIMP 2.8 is at least a few months ahead. More details will come in the next blog post.

Today is December 27. I need GIMP 2.8. Where is it...

2010-12-28T14:48:10.715+01:00

Today is December 27. I need GIMP 2.8. Where is it?

Today is the day, where's GIMP 2.8 hmm?

2010-12-27T22:06:59.004+01:00

Today is the day, where's GIMP 2.8 hmm?

Love GIMP. Hope 2.8 will be out soon. Thanks for a...

2010-11-22T01:43:09.020+01:00

Love GIMP. Hope 2.8 will be out soon. Thanks for all you do

Sorry to hear that - but I am sure it is due to no...

2010-10-28T10:39:21.898+02:00

Sorry to hear that - but I am sure it is due to no lack of effort. I hope we won't have to wait too long - will keep an eye out for the blog post.

Best,
Mette

We're not going to be able to release 2.8 in D...

2010-10-27T17:19:17.733+02:00

We're not going to be able to release 2.8 in December 2010. I'll make a blog post in November explaining why and presenting a new schedule for 2.8 development.

It has been nine months since the tentative releas...

2010-10-27T10:13:21.453+02:00

It has been nine months since the tentative release date was made public - is there any news on how it is holding up? Can I still expect to spend the last part of my holidays playing with Gimp 2.8? :-)

Oh and I don't want to sound ungrateful. Anyo...

2010-05-09T06:21:06.840+02:00

Oh and I don't want to sound ungrateful. Anyone who has contributed to Gimp development is a god, in my eyes.

Praise be to you.

I'm in the middle of the road.. I feel like it...

2010-05-09T06:18:50.411+02:00

I'm in the middle of the road.. I feel like it's a reasonable release date for the fact that it's free software, built on volunteer time.. however.. I feel that a more organized and goal-oriented fund raising campaign, whether scheduled or ongoing, would be better than simply offering a donation link.

As stupid as it probably is, people want to see some sort of direct impact from their donations, regardless of how insignificant that donation may be.

If we need more developers for Gimp, the community needs to drum up the awareness level of the problem, so that it can be bickered over and ultimately, addressed..

Money will show up if you give it a good reason to accumulate. So as reasonable as the release date is for the current state of things, there is no reason why we shouldn't be more on top of the notion to enhance the state of things. More attention.. more users.. more developers.

What can we do to ACTUALLY accelerate this project? It needs a shot in the arm.

I'm very interested in iWarp as a tool in 2.8!...

2010-03-25T17:43:38.520+01:00

I'm very interested in iWarp as a tool in 2.8! In Paint Shop Pro it's called "Warp Brush". After the first stroke it locks into that mode and doesn't let you use any other tool until you press "Apply" for it (or it auto-applies after you do a stroke with some other tool), and i think it's pretty clever. Other filters like "Colorize" can probably be done the same way.

Of course schedule seems always too long, but you ...

2010-03-13T12:55:22.446+01:00

Of course schedule seems always too long, but you make a good job. Congratulation to the team. I am impatient to get 2.8 version.
Many thanks

Here's discussion about paying to develop: htt...

2010-03-04T22:44:17.186+01:00

Here's discussion about paying to develop: https://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-developer/2010-January/024046.html

Some opinions:
"I don't think that donations can speed up GIMP development. On the contrary, paying some developers for their work is more likely going to demotivate others."

"GIMP team has been through this before with GEGL in early 2000s and it really didn't work."

Related to the development releases, is there a we...

2010-03-02T14:51:49.843+01:00

Related to the development releases, is there a website where I could find Windows installers for some 2.7.x dev versions ?

Or a website where I could find step-by-step instructions on how to compile GIMP sources on Windows ? (I'm not a programmer at all so I'm totally ignorant in this kind of things)

Thank you in advance for any piece of advice!

@Joe: GIMP 2.7.* are development releases. The wor...

2010-02-28T09:30:04.720+01:00

@Joe: GIMP 2.7.* are development releases. The work we are doing now will eventually be released as GIMP 2.8.

P.S. The Gimp site only shows 2.6.8, so that's...

2010-02-28T07:25:39.359+01:00

P.S. The Gimp site only shows 2.6.8, so that's why i was wondering :)

Hey, I replied to you in the web mailer about making that gimp community! I think create.gimp.org would friggin amazing to use for the subdomain! :D

Hey, so when's 2.7 coming out? Or are we skipp...

2010-02-28T06:02:37.821+01:00

Hey, so when's 2.7 coming out? Or are we skipping that version? hehe

I certainly find it interesting that Krita has cre...

2010-02-14T23:18:41.024+01:00

I certainly find it interesting that Krita has created a fund-raising campaign to raise funds to pay a full time developer... they started with an easy 3 month goal and donations easily exceeded it (at 150% of the goal now).

While I appreciate the efforts of volunteer contributors (it's an amazing product), why not also leverage a paid developer... certainly everyone would be energized by faster progress (including doners)

I think the release date is very reasonable. Peopl...

2010-02-11T17:28:26.518+01:00

I think the release date is very reasonable. People at the Blender community are watching the development of blender 2.5 for years now and they never whined about the indefinite release date, because they can actually use the latest improvements if you compile from svn. I believe the GIMP community has a lot to learn from the Blender community.

@Anonymous: Probably not, but if I were to improve...

2010-02-11T12:34:25.632+01:00

@Anonymous: Probably not, but if I were to improve IWarp I would continue the started work to convert it into a proper-tool so one can warp the canvas directly:

"implement IWarp paint tool to replace the plug-in"
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162014

Hi, there is another tool I would like to have in ...

2010-02-09T15:32:40.313+01:00

Hi, there is another tool I would like to have in GIMP, or to be precise I would like the existing IWarp Tool to be enhanced: In Photoshop's Liquify tool it is possible to select which layers are shown in the warping window, so you can see how to transform the layer you're working on so that it fits to the other layers. Extremely helpful for composing work.

For example, I wanted to make a montage where the earth globe melts like ice through the fingers of a human hand. Couldn't match the shapes to the fingers because I couldn't see them.

Would it be much work to implement that?

@Nico: Yes, your browser should show an RSS icon i...

2010-02-04T19:30:51.058+01:00

@Nico: Yes, your browser should show an RSS icon in the address bar or maybe somewhere else depending on what browser you have. If it doesn't, change browser.

@Martin The changes so far are looking great! Can&...

2010-02-04T12:39:38.318+01:00

@Martin The changes so far are looking great! Can't wait for 2.8..

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