Developers needed: help fixing bugs

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:09:08 +0100

Hi folks,

since more than one year I'm offering GIMP packages for Mac OS X. All of the work is done by only one person, by me. This is okay as long as there's only few to do and bugs are more or less easily to squeeze out.

But now there's one major bug in GTK+, which will prevent GIMP 2.8 to work properly with tablets. This bug is in all GTK+ version 2.17 or higher. Since GIMP 2.8 depends on at least GTK+ 2.18, GIMP 2.8 will lack tablet support.

So, if you are a developer, capable of GTK+, GLIB2, GIMP, MacPorts and bash scripting, it would be nice if you'll join this project and help to make GIMP 2.8 work properly with graphic tablets on Macs.

Without your help, it's likely that GIMP 2.8 won't run on Mac OS X. Don't let GIMP on OS X die !

So, join the project, fix the bug and help offering one of the best image manipulating programs to Mac users: GIMP.

-skl ( skl at lisanet dot de )

Here some information about the bug:

The filechooser dialog (and any other GTK+ standard dialog ?) doesn't recognize any press events from the pen / tablet. Just read this posting:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/msg19192.html

and especially this reply

http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/msg19193.html

Updates for Leopard and Tiger are online

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:29:14 +0200

It‘s been quite some time since I annouced the 2.6.11 builds for Leopard and Tiger system. Now they are available and I‘ve put them online. So just go over to the Donwload page and get you new GIMP.
This version fixes some bugs in GIMP. For more details please read the ChangeLog. There are no other changes made to the GIMP on OS X bundles and no other plugins have been updated or changed. For a brief information about all those great and powerful plugins which are shipped preinstalled with the GIMP on OS X packages, just go to the Photo Editing page here on this site.
Thanks for beeing so patient and ...
happy gimping.
-skl

2.6.11 available for Snow Leopard

Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:32:14 +0200

GIMP 2.6.11 is now available for Snow Leopard users.
This version fixes some bugs in GIMP. For more details please read the ChangeLog. There are no other changes made to the GIMP on OS X bundles and no other plugins have been updated or changed. For a brief information about all those great and powerful plugins which are shipped preinstalled with the GIMP on OS X packages, just go to the Photo Editing page here on this site.
In the next few days, I‘ll build the packages for Leoaprd and Tiger systems, so stay tuned.
-skl

New GIMP version: 2.6.10 is out

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:41:43 +0200

A rather bad bug has crept into the 2.6.9 release of GIMP. Clicking on any scrollbar arrows crashed the application. This is now fixed in this new version 2.6.10.
Unfortunately, there were two other bugs in the 2.6.9 build. Python didn‘t work properly and if you use a graphic tablet, you might have noticed, that some dialogs would only work once, and will loose focus when they are opend for the second time. Both issues could be fixed, although I had to downgrade GTK+ to the old version, which was used in the previous releases of GIMP.
So I recommend you to download the new 2.6.10 release.
BTW, the donwgrade to an old GTK+ version might lead to some trouble if the 2.8 series of GIMP will be released. The upcoming GIMP depends on a newer GTK+ library (2.18 or higher). So, if the GTK+ guys get this focus issus fixed, tablets will work properly in future versions, otherwise you have to set the focus every time to the dialog by clicking first on any other GIMP window and then on the dialog window...
-skl

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Developers needed: help fixing bugs

Updates for Leopard and Tiger are online

2.6.11 available for Snow Leopard

New GIMP version: 2.6.10 is out