Martin Nordholts has published a tentative (and very fluid) schedule for GIMP 2.8. The schedule currently calls for the first 2.8 release candidate on April 2, 2011. Some of the items of interest that are under development for 2.8 include
Resource tagging – allowing searches for brushes, for example, by tags similar to social networking tags
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I’m preparing to update my GIMP book and decided it would be best to work from the source repository. A long time ago that repository was in CVS and you needed to download a bunch of GTK related packages as prerequisites. This was actually pretty easy. Then things moved to SVN and things were still [...]
I caught this interesting post from Leonard Evens, from Northwester University’s Mathematics department, on the GIMP-User mailing list today. It describes how you might go about using a printer profile under GIMP 2.4.3. It’s not necessarily for the average user, but those who’ve worked with printer profiles on other systems will likely be able to [...]
There are a number of questions that arise on the GIMP User Mailing List quite frequently. Often these questions are not even about getting help with using the GIMP yet take up much of the discussion. Instead of rehashing those discussions repeatedly, it helps to have an FAQ that addresses these questions. You should also [...]
