Gimp-2.8.8 released

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12849

Installed GIMP 2.8.8 from ftp site. It launches fine, but during the launch, I get errors with libglib-2.0-0. Not sure the solution. Guess I will have to tolerate this until they fix it.

abraess · **Joined:** Oct 02, 2010 **Posts:** 106

Hallo thank you I wounder only that Windows is found ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/window ... -setup.exe and not form http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html that address form I download as save Version.

Thank you Andrew

paynekj · **Posted:** Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:59 am **(#13)**

abraess wrote:

Hallo thank you I wounder only that Windows is found ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/window ... -setup.exe and not form http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html that address form I download as save Version.

Thank you Andrew

The GIMP website explains why they are not using Sourceforge now: GIMP Windows Installers move from Sourceforge to ftp.gimp.org

abraess · **Joined:** Oct 02, 2010 **Posts:** 106

Hallo good to know I have now the German page I know say nothing about change.
thank you
Andrew

Brogun · **Joined:** Apr 29, 2012 **Posts:** 110

As it's been a while i had not launched Gimp without plugins+scripts+brushes, i decided to count the loading time on my window version of 2.8.8.
I obtained roughly 37 seconds.

Then i launched my old portable version of 2.6.12 on which i had added the GPS brush pack and it loaded in 5 or 6 seconds.

Big difference.

After adding all my plugins/brush(much more than only GPS)/scripts, 2.8.8 loading time went up to 1 minute (at least i was expecting the increase there).
(it's not new to 2.8.8 , in 2.8.6 i noticed long loading time too, made worse by the rescanning of every single plugin everytime, something fortunately fixed and that was fixed in the 2.8.6 Partha version)

Has anyone noticed such big increase of loading time (5/6 seconds for 2.6.12 vs 37 seconds for default 2.8.8) since the 2.6.x era or is that just a win32 version of Gimp problem ?

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12849

Below's what I posted at GIMPusers.

The problem turns out not with GIMP itself, but with the User Filter. Below are the errors. Maybe the User filter needs to be re-compiled. Sorry for not analyzing the errors earler (work weekend nights and last night was my Friday if you will and tired I was then and just installed the GIMP 2.8.8 before hitting the sack). Still not sure how the new version breaks the User Filter and I use this filter often enough that I hope there's a fix for it shortly.

http://imageshack.us/a/img109/9082/1l9o.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img203/2692/vkqe.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img713/8582/ow7t.png

GnuTux · **Posted:** Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:00 pm **(#17)**

Just got the GIMP 2.8.8 update in Fedora.

Here are the changes from the official change log.

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.6 to GIMP 2.8.8
=================================================

Core:
- Make sure indexed images always have a colormap
- Fix language selection via preferences on Windows
- Don't crash on setting a large text size

GUI:
- Keep the same image active when switching between MWM and SWM
- Make sure all dockables are properly resizable (particularly shrinkable) (yay!!!)
- Add links to jump directly to Save/Export from the Export/Save file extension warning dialogs

Libgimp:
- Fix GimpPickButton on OSX

Plug-ins:
- Properly document plug-in-autocrop-layer's PDB interface
- Fix importing of indexed BMPs

General:
- Fix lots of places to use GIO to get proper file sizes and times on windows
- Add an AppData file for GIMP
- Backport lcms2 support from master, because lcms1 is not getting bug fixes any longer
- Lots of bug fixes
- Lots of translation updates

Looks great! :yes

Fedora 18 (and above) users can grab the new GIMP version from the updates-testing repository.

Code: Select all

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gimp

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12849

Just confirmed; removed path for User Filter (via GIMP interface for plugins) and all's well except, of course, the User Filter is no longer. Need to fix this. Maybe someone can recompile it or tell me how too; would be much appreciated.

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:44 pm **(#19)**

With all these errors, i'd rather wait for a fix.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

@Lylejk

If you already have a building environment to compile gimp and gmic it should be not too hard compile other gimp plugin

Bigger problem may be found what has to be corrected in the plugin code , why it works with the previous version but not anymore ,... and fix it

samj · **Joined:** May 09, 2012 **Posts:** 914

@Lylejk

userfilter :
You can try the 32-bit version, it should work.
The problem seems to be glib.

There are a lot of changes to run on Win 64. I have compiled a version but I'm not sure of its operation. I will test later....

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12849

PhotoComix wrote:

@Lylejk

If you already have a building environment to compile gimp and gmic it should be not too hard compile other gimp plugin

Bigger problem may be found what has to be corrected in the plugin code , why it works with the previous version but not anymore ,... and fix it

I have no idea how to create a makefile PC; not a coder.

Looking forward to testing your user filter update samj.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16175

After installing the windows version i have noticed python modules will not function.They do load but are not present in the menu listings.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

GnuTux wrote:

Just got the GIMP 2.8.8 update in Fedora.

[ Image ]

Here are the changes from the official change log.

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.6 to GIMP 2.8.8
=================================================

Core:
- Make sure indexed images always have a colormap
- Fix language selection via preferences on Windows
- Don't crash on setting a large text size

GUI:
- Keep the same image active when switching between MWM and SWM
- Make sure all dockables are properly resizable (particularly shrinkable) (yay!!!)
- Add links to jump directly to Save/Export from the Export/Save file extension warning dialogs

Libgimp:
- Fix GimpPickButton on OSX

Plug-ins:
- Properly document plug-in-autocrop-layer's PDB interface
- Fix importing of indexed BMPs

General:
- Fix lots of places to use GIO to get proper file sizes and times on windows
- Add an AppData file for GIMP
- Backport lcms2 support from master, because lcms1 is not getting bug fixes any longer
- Lots of bug fixes
- Lots of translation updates

Looks great! :yes

Fedora 18 (and above) users can grab the new GIMP version from the updates-testing repository.

Code: Select all

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gimp

Thank you tux...looking good. :pengy

Yay! for Fedora :bigthup

abraess · **Joined:** Oct 02, 2010 **Posts:** 106

Rod wrote:

After installing the windows version i have noticed python modules will not function.They do load but are not present in the menu listings.

Hallo that can I confirm under Windows 7 32 Bit. I roll back to 2.8.6 and hope next version would that 2.8.10 or 2.10 perhaps 3.0 ?

Gino D · **Joined:** Nov 06, 2012 **Posts:** 239 **Location:** Italy

Rod wrote:

After installing the windows version i have noticed python modules will not function.They do load but are not present in the menu listings.

As far as I could notice, this is an issue that every now and then tends to recur in the Windows versions of GIMP.
Since it proved to affect GIMP Portable as well, some time ago this problem was reported and discussed in a thread of the PortableApps Forums, where a patch was eventually submitted and then implemented so as to permanently guarantee the python support as regards the portable release.
Try to see if that patch still works even with the official installer package. Here is the link to the thread in question:

http://portableapps.com/node/32125

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12849

Python appears to be working fine for me in 2.8.8 64 bit Rod. Hope that patch the 32-bit version soon.

abraess · **Joined:** Oct 02, 2010 **Posts:** 106

Hallo than I want 2.8.8.1 Version. I´m user no programmer
Thank you Andrew

Caz · **Posted:** Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:56 pm **(#29)**

Downloaded and compiled 2.8.8 last night and everything seems to be working fine on Linux Mint 15. Great stuff.

Mikechat · **Joined:** May 23, 2012 **Posts:** 150

just a thought
out of the two versions I have loaded, same problem, it could not load MATHMAP from portable user,
only from C:\user\ or Portable GIMP\share global
not for Portable, dose anyone know if Appdata will work?