Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "configuration"

Gimp 2.8 first release

Monday, 17. August 2009, 19:32:39

image editor, xcf, gnu image manipulation programm, configuration ...

The first development snapshot of Gimp 2.8 is available: Gimp 2.7.0. There are a lot of nice, new upcoming features:
* a reworked, much more flexible text tool
* new saving/ export option
* export plugin for X11 mouse cursors and JPEG2000 file format
* rotation of brushes and additional enhancements to the brush dynamics engine
* tagging for resources
...and much more.
Check out the release notes too.

But there are much more interesting things we can await in Gimp 2.8:
* Finish merging of the GSoC 2006 vector layer stuff
* Merge the GSoC 2009 projects for brush dynamics and improved SIOX.
* Add a better set of default resoures
* Provide default tags for the default resources

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Gimp optimizations

Saturday, 25. October 2008, 19:06:11

image editor, configuration, xcf, imageing ...

I started to optimze/ modify my easyGIMPkit for Gimp 2.6. By studying the man page of the gimprc file (on a shell type in "man gimprc") i found two interesting options for optimizing Gimp:

(num-processors 1)
Sets how many processors GIMP should try to use simultaneously. May for a dualcore cpu use (num-processors 2) for a quadcore use (num-processors 4)

(toolbox-wilber no)
Disable the GIMP mascot "Wilber" at the top of the toolbox of Gimp 2.6 to save screen space.

This options can be setup at the configuration file "~/.gimp-2.6/gimprc".

BTW:The X11 Mouse Cursor plugin for Gimp is now available for Gimp 2.6 too. Grab a Deb package for Ubuntu here.

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