After discussing with Schumaml and Houz on IRC, let's just drop the
generic comment which may be confusing and is probably unecessary,
especially now that I write the revision number (present and new ones).
So let's just assume people understand that they should update, even
when GIMP version stays the same (this was the case I was the most wary
about, that people think the notification is an error as since they have
the last version, they don't have to update GIMP).
I hesitated to at least leave just the simple "It is recommended to
update." sentence but after much hesitation, let's go with no generic
comment at all. The download button by itself should suffice.
Of course, when a specific revision comment is set in
gimp_versions.json, it is still displayed.
- Instead of the download link being just a link button (similar to
browser "blue text" links), make it a proper button encompassing the
update icon and the download text "Download GIMP X.Y.Z".
- Make also the revision number part of the download information.
- Frame title is now "Update available!" instead of "New version
available!" (because it's not necessarily a new version, it can also
be just a package revision. "Update" is more generic).
- When no update is available, the "Check for updates" button is big and
has a label, and also now an icon. When an update is available, hence
we display now a button for the download link, the "Check for updates"
button becomes small with icon only in order not to take visual
priority over the download itself (yet allowing to re-check for even
newer information).
As noted on IRC, after the first update check on a given day, it looks
like the check button does nothing. Therefore also display the check
time to clearly show the button click was taken into account (simply
there are no updates, hence only displayed check time is updated).
When checking for updates, write the new timestamp and version info
to Gimp::edit_config, instead of Gimp::config, and rely on its
auto-save mechanism to save the changes, in order to avoid having
to save Gimp::config on exit, which overrides modified settings
that require a restart, such as the UI language, as they are only
reflected in Gimp::edit_config.
This fixes the bug, but can cause the new update info to be
discarded if the Preferences dialog is open while checking for
updates, and is subsequently canceled. Ideally, the update info
should live in a separate file, rather than in gimprc.
Allow horizontal scrollbars in all the Preferences dialog tree-
views, so that they don't limit the minimal width of the dialog (in
particular, the UI- and icon-theme tree-views may contain
arbitrarily-long paths).
If for instance you've got no internet connection or other reasons that
a check might fail, the check-update-timestamp will be 0, which is
1970-01-01.
Thanks to Alexandre Prokoudine for noticing it!
Even when we already notify of an update, we should leave the ability to
query the last gimp_versions.json manually.
It would allow also people who disabled automatic check at startup
(whether through preferences or because the build disabled the feature
altogether) to still make update checks, and to not be forever stuck
with the result of an outdated version check.
The idea is to be able to advertize a new revision of the same version
of GIMP. For instance, this would apply when we release a
`gimp-2-10-14-setup-3.exe` Windows installer (then we are at revision
3, provided we started at revision 0).
The revision number is obviously only relevant to a given platform and
version. Also the concept of build ID allows to differentiate various
builds for a same platform, in particular to not look at revisions of
third-party builds. The build ID can be any string. Maybe we could just
use reverse DNS build id (such as "org.gimp.GIMP_official") to identify
the official GIMP build. So in the end, we only compare revisions for an
identical (version, platform, build-id) tuple.
Add a new "Snap brush outline to stroke" toggle to the "Image
Windows" preferences page. When enabled, the brush outline in
paint tools snaps to the individual dabs while painting, instead of
following the cursor precisely (this is the existing behavior).
When disabled, the brush outline follows the cursor while painting
in the same way it does while not painting.
Disable the option by default. This seems to be what most other
programs are doing, and it does give paitning a smoother feel.
Add a new Gimp::tool_item_ui_list, which is a GimpTreeProxy over
Gimp::tool_item_list. This allows us to use either a hierarchical
or a flat tool list in the UI, by setting the "flat" property of
the new list.
Use Gimp::tool_item_ui_list in GimpToolPalette, so that the toolbox
layout is affected by this choice.
Add a "Use tool groups" toggle to the toolbox preferences, and bind
it to the "flat" property of Gimp::tool_item_ui_list.
Add tool-group support to GimpToolEditor, used to organize tools in
the Preferences dialog, including creating, rearranging, and
deleting groups. Also, major cleanup.
gimp_int_radio_group_new() was still complaining about the scope of
radio_button_callback(). Make it (scope notified) because it needs to
stay alive after the function returns and may be called multiple times.
Also adding a GDestroyNotify to free the callback data once the widget
is destroyed (additionally it will also serve as a notifier for bindings
to properly free the callback closure itself, not only it's data).
With this last one done, GObject Introspection generation now happens
without any warning output.
Add a new 3D Transform tool, based on GimpToolTransform3DGrid,
added in the previous commit. The tool UI provides a notbook with
three tabs, corresponding to the three GimpToolTransform3DGrid
modes:
Camera - allows setting the primary vanishing point, as well as
the camera's focal length, expressed either directly, or as the
camera's angle of view, relative to the whole image or the
transformed item. By default, the vanishing point is aligned
with the item's center, and the angle of view is fixed relative
to the item; this essentially means that each item is transformed
using a local perspective, independent of its position and size
relative to the image. A global perspective can be achieved by
using a common vanishing point and focal length (or an image-
relative angle of view).
Move - allows moving the item using X, Y, and Z offsets.
Rotate - allows rotating the item using X, Y, and Z Euler angles.
The order of rotation of the different axes can be controlled by
a set of numbered buttons next to the sliders, and the rotation's
pivot can be controlled using a pivot selector.
Instead of making the focus on bug reporting, the debug dialog will now
make the focus on updating the application if it is found that one is
not using the last version.
Debug data (backtraces and co.) will still be available and copiable,
but under an expander, and bug report button won't be displayed (i.e.
data will still be available upon request but we don't push anymore
people to submit it directly if they are using old versions of GIMP).
Of course, if you are using the last version (or version check was not
possible), the dialog still stays the same.
When an update is available, a big frame is visible, proposing to go to
the download page. Now a button is also available to explicitly request
for an update check in other cases (bypassing the wait delay for a
future startup).
I was wondering which shape should take the new version notification
(again some ugly pop-up?!) and realized using the About dialog was a
good idea.
This is preparatory work for this to happen.
GIMP will now process the remote gimp_versions json file to look if one
is using the last version of GIMP. This initial code doesn't act up yet
on this information. This will come in further commits.
Here are the characteristics:
- Since this requires internet access, a new checkbox is available in
the Preferences dialog, allowing to disable version checks. Note that
it is enabled by default as it is an important security feature, but
it has to be deactivatable.
- The remote access is done as an async operation because we don't want
it to block the startup in any way (for whatever reason). Also it
doesn't output errors if it fails to not be a bother (you don't
technically need internet access for an image program).
- We don't check at every startup. At each successful check, we save a
timestamp to prevent too frequent useless checks (I set it the timer
to a week or more for now).
export it to libgimp via GPConfig and add new API gimp_export_comment().
Bump the protocol version and improve variable names in both GPConfig
and libgimp/gimp.c.
and remove a gazillion gtk_widget_show() all over the place, some
places need a gtk_widget_hide() now, and I'm pretty sure I broke at
least one thing in all those files...
Add a new "Swap compression" option to the preferences, allowing
explicit control over the tile-swap compression algorithm.
Previously, control over swap compression was only possible through
GEGL command-line options/environment variables. Since the GEGL
API to list all available compression algorithms is still private
for now, we currently only list the three predefined compression
levels -- "best performance" (the default), "balanced", and "best
compression" -- and a "none" option, to disable compression
altogether. Selecting a custom compression algorithm is possible
by entering its name manually.
Add an option to keep the normal canvas padding in "show all" mode,
instead of extending the checkerboard pattern indefinitely. This
is useful when wanting to show the image content beyond the canvas,
while still keeping the focus on the canvas; further commits will
extend this mode to behave in more view-related cases as if "show
all" wasn't enabled.
Add a new 'View -> Padding Color -> Keep Padding in "Show All"
Mode" toggle, which controls this behavior, with a corresponding
default-value option in the preferences, under "Image Windows ->
Appearance".
It's an ancient concept from ancient times when we didn't have URIs
and only filenames (not to speak of GFile), and actually even from
before the ancient time before that ancient time when we first had
ones and zeros, and only had zeros.
paste as brush, paste as pattern, select to new brush, select to new pattern
fill selection outline, fill path, stroke selection, distort, rounded rectangle
indexed color conversion, merge visible layers, new guide, new guide (by percent)
image properties, newsprint, fractal explorer, sample colorize, new layer
metadata editor (just a button), spyroplus (only common buttons)
Add a "show canvas boundary" display option, and a corresponding
"View" menu item and default-apperance preferences option. When
enabled (the default), the canvas boundary is shown as an orange/
black dashed line in "show all" mode.
Add a "show all" mode to GimpDisplayShell, controlled through a
corresponding "View -> Show All" menu item. When enabled, the
entire image content is displayed, instead of cropping the image
to the canvas size. More generally, the display behaves as if the
canvas were infinite. The following commits improve the overall
behavior in this mode.
Add a prefernces option to control the default "show all" state.
Step one: get rid of all those deprecation warnings that make
it hard to see any other warnings:
- add a lot of dummy API to GimpAction, GimpActionGroup, GimpUIManager
etc. which simply forwards to the deprecated GTK functions, they
will all go away again later
- rename GimpAction to GimpActionImpl
- add interface GimpAction that is implemented by all action classes,
creates a common interface and allows to remove some duplicated
logic from GimpToggleAction and GimpRadioAction, and at the same
time adds more features
file_open_location_response(): guard against g_file_new_for_uri()
returning NULL (which it shouldn't) and an error being NULL (which it
shouldn't either for the same reason). Spotted by Massimo.
...doesn't work
Rename the labels to "built-in sRGB color profile" and "built-in
grayscale color profile" because that's what the option does, it never
converted to the preferred profiles from preferences.
