There's not much news on gimpchat about the Gimp development, so while browsing around the Blenderartists board, i ran into a thread dedicaced to Gimp 2.9 that actively discuss development and noticed 2 posts that were reports about what's going on currently
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthr ... -9-is-out-!
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Users have been asking for a default noiseless icon theme and a dark UI theme for a while.
Here's the first step: it's now possible to switch between icon themes, and a symbolic theme has been added.
Obligatory screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/8rUf9fl.jpgNeedless to say, this is a work in progress. A number of icons have been missing, a version for HiDPI displays needs to be done, and, of course, dark UI theme has to be added. All will be taken care of.
We also have a new guy working on OSX builds. He's still familiarizing himself with stuff, but a DMG of the latest stable release is now available for testing:
http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/osx/testing/.
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So, this is something you probably won't use a lot, but still a milestone towards 2.10: color management for greyscale images is done.
GIMP will automatically generate a greyscale ICC profile when you switch to greyscale mode, and will finally allow to assign a greyscale ICC profile to an image, if an existing loaded image doesn't have one for some reason.
Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/W5GIFVL.pngSomething you might actually use is the MyPaint brush. In 2.9.2, this tool was called experimental for a good reason: the performance was just unbearable. A contributor started hacking on it a few days ago, and now there's a lot less lag during the painting. Something like a 200px large brush lags somewhat, smaller brushes are OK. Needless to say, there's still a lot of work to do, including the brush selector UI and brush settings.
Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/EBHaABi.pngNote that the MyPaint brush mixes colors the right way, in linear space (EDIT: nope, not linear ): yellow above cianish-blue (check FG/BG colors below the toolbox) produces nice vivid green (check the sample points dialog in the lower right corner).
And an article on libregraphicworlds with some more news :
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entr ... 2-releasedMypaint brushes, performance increase, sounds good