Gimp-2.7.4 comments

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16200

2.8 should be out soon.

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

Right!

gerard82 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:46 pm **(#43)**

What is soon?
Before Christmas?
Gerard.

lacertile · **Joined:** Dec 07, 2011 **Posts:** 102

To anyone currently using Partha's 2.7.4 Windows 64-bit build, are you experiencing issues with image tearing? What I mean by that is that when moving an image quickly, it seems to split into columns and rows and then go back together when it's stopped moving. I don't believe that ever happened with normal GIMP. Is that just because this version is an unofficial one? Or is it something with the settings or just the fact that it's 64-bit?

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

I use Partha's 2.7.4 and I haven't had that problem with it. Is this a one time thing or does it happen all the time.
Try rebooting to see if it still happens.

lacertile · **Joined:** Dec 07, 2011 **Posts:** 102

I wonder if it's related to having a lot of layers? The total image probably has 10+ layers. I know that GIMP tends to slow down when there's a lot of layers in an image. I did reboot and it did the some thing. It doesn't do it if I move the image around slow, but I try to do a quick grab and move, then it will tear like that.

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

Partha may be able to help you with this problem. He has a website. http://partha.com/

Anomolcaris · **Joined:** Dec 09, 2011 **Posts:** 5

I'm thrilled to have access to the latest stable G'MIC, but for some reason, it seems to work when I open Gimp 2.7, but not 2.7.4. Also, is it something unique to the 2.7 series that one must export rather than save_as to save as anything other than .xcf format?

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

2.7 and 2.7.4 would be two separate Gimp versions. You would probably need to add your GMIC to the version you are having the problems with. I have 2.6.11, 2.7.4 in my hard drive and I have another version in my usb flash drive. That means I have to insert GMIC independently in all three unless it comes pre-installed in that version.

lacertile · **Joined:** Dec 07, 2011 **Posts:** 102

Anomolcaris wrote:

Also, is it something unique to the 2.7 series that one must export rather than save_as to save as anything other than .xcf format?

It is. I believe that was done in order to make it clear between saving in .xcf format and saving in formats other than that.

tstandiford · **Posted:** Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:43 pm **(#51)**

lacertile wrote:

Anomolcaris wrote:

Also, is it something unique to the 2.7 series that one must export rather than save_as to save as anything other than .xcf format?

It is. I believe that was done in order to make it clear between saving in .xcf format and saving in formats other than that.

Which is a good move on their part IMO. If I had a nickel for every time I had to explain how to save an image as something other than whatever you opened it as, I would have retired a year ago.

lacertile · **Joined:** Dec 07, 2011 **Posts:** 102

It is a good move. Should save people from accidentally saving over images that they didn't intend to overwrite.

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

If you use the partha version look better the file menu:
there are also Save xcf and Export (for imagines already saved as xcf) and Save as xcf and Export, that allow to save the xcf and simultaneously to export jpg and/or png
(with same name in the same folder of the xcf)

It save me a lot of time, avoided a lot of warnings to click out, and remove any excuse to not saving the original xcf

PS
The script may also be easily modified to add other formats
Are only 2 to keep it simple but if requested more may be added

lacertile · **Joined:** Dec 07, 2011 **Posts:** 102

I don't know if they'll change this or not, but I hope they can find a way to make it clearer when a layer's transparency is locked and when it isn't. From Partha's version, it would appear that they took out the little check mark box that indicated when a layer was locked. I hope they put that back in. I don't understand the decision to take it out. They replaced it with a checkered box, but that's not clear enough for me. It doesn't stand out enough.

YAFU · **Joined:** Nov 09, 2011 **Posts:** 726

YAFU wrote:

Since I installed the latest version from Git (GNU/Linux) I have lost tablet support. In fact what happens is that Gimp does not detect any device in Edit > Input Devices. Gimp does not generate a new "devicerc" file in my ~/.Gimp-2.7 folder.
I have Gimp installed in /opt. I do not know if that, or a problem with gimp or GTK 2.24.8.

Well, here's the solution to that problem:
http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp-us ... ut-devices

I had to configure gtk with "--with-xinput=yes" option:

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./configure --with-xinput=yes

Perhaps for Gerard and Partha this was obvious, but I did not know :mrgreen:

foxmuldr · **Joined:** Dec 27, 2011 **Posts:** 6

Am attempting to build 2.7.4 on Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64. I installed the pre-req's, but am getting an error here:

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checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.24.7... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
configure: error: Test for GTK+ failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help.

I have GTK+ 3.2.3 installed (tried with --prefix=/usr and without, both installed). And it reports being installed:

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rick@rick-amd64:~$ pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0
-L/usr/local/lib -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0

I've manually extracted the conftest.c code out of the configure script, and I had to add several -I/usr/local/include/package-x.y/ and -I/usr/lib/package.x.y/include/ references to get it to compile. So I'm pretty sure it's a path issue as GTK+ 3.x installed to /usr/local/. I'm just not sure how to fix it.

The config.log file shows this:

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configure:17298: checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.24.7
configure:17426: result: no
configure:17454: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror=missing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security  -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option      conftest.c   >&5
conftest.c:49: fatal error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Can anybody help me resolve this? Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

foxmuldr wrote:

Am attempting to build 2.7.4 on Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64. I installed the pre-req's, but am getting an error here:

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checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.24.7... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
configure: error: Test for GTK+ failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help.

I have GTK+ 3.2.3 installed (tried with --prefix=/usr and without, both installed). And it reports being installed:

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rick@rick-amd64:~$ pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0
-L/usr/local/lib -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0

I've manually extracted the conftest.c code out of the configure script, and I had to add several -I/usr/local/include/package-x.y/ and -I/usr/lib/package.x.y/include/ references to get it to compile. So I'm pretty sure it's a path issue as GTK+ 3.x installed to /usr/local/. I'm just not sure how to fix it.

The config.log file shows this:

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configure:17298: checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.24.7
configure:17426: result: no
configure:17454: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror=missing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security  -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option      conftest.c   >&5
conftest.c:49: fatal error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Can anybody help me resolve this? Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin

Yes, you cannot use GTK+ 3.0. You have to downgrade to GTK+2.24.8. GTK+3.0 migration is promised for the next version.

foxmuldr · **Joined:** Dec 27, 2011 **Posts:** 6

partha wrote:

Yes, you cannot use GTK+ 3.0. You have to downgrade to GTK+2.24.8. GTK+3.0 migration is promised for the next version.

Thanks that fixed it. Everything configured. Still having some issues on "make" step though. Will look at them tomorrow.

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin

foxmuldr · **Joined:** Dec 27, 2011 **Posts:** 6

I was getting this error when I try to install pygobject-2.28.6:

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  CC     _gi_la-pygi-info.lo
In file included from /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:107:0,
                 from ../gobject/pygobject.h:7,
                 from pygi.h:30,
                 from pygi-private.h:17,
                 from pygi-info.c:24:
/usr/local/include/glib-2.0/glib/deprecated/gthread.h:165:4: warning: declaration does not declare anything
pygi-info.c: In function '_pygi_info_new':
pygi-info.c:165:14: error: 'GI_INFO_TYPE_ERROR_DOMAIN' undeclared (first use in this function)
pygi-info.c:165:14: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
pygi-info.c:135:5: warning: enumeration value 'GI_INFO_TYPE_INVALID_0' not handled in switch
pygi-info.c: In function '_pygi_g_type_info_size':
pygi-info.c:484:22: error: 'GI_INFO_TYPE_ERROR_DOMAIN' undeclared (first use in this function)
pygi-info.c:448:13: warning: enumeration value 'GI_INFO_TYPE_INVALID_0' not handled in switch
pygi-info.c: In function 'pygi_g_struct_info_is_simple':
pygi-info.c:863:26: error: 'GI_INFO_TYPE_ERROR_DOMAIN' undeclared (first use in this function)
pygi-info.c:835:17: warning: enumeration value 'GI_INFO_TYPE_INVALID_0' not handled in switch
make[2]: *** [_gi_la-pygi-info.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rick/Downloads/pygobject-2.28.6/gi'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rick/Downloads/pygobject-2.28.6/gi'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
rick@rick-amd64:~/Downloads/pygobject-2.28.6$ 

After some searching, I found the error was the result of introspection. The suggested work-arounds were to re-run configure with --disable-introspection. For me that fixed it.

Building GIMP 2.7.4 on an older distro is proving quite the challenge. :-) I'm no expert by far, but so far I'm up to manually installing 16 separate packages (beyond build-essential, python, flex and bison) that are newer than my distro's (originally Ubuntu 10.10, now using Trisquel 5) or are not installed by default at all.

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin

foxmuldr · **Joined:** Dec 27, 2011 **Posts:** 6

I've gotten it to configure. When run make I get this error:

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  CCLD   file-ico
/usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_datalist_get_data'
/usr/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_mutex_new'
/usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0: undefined reference to `g_rec_mutex_lock'
/usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_mutex_unlock'
/usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_mutex_lock'
/usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0: undefined reference to `g_rec_mutex_unlock'
/usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0: undefined reference to `g_private_replace'
/usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_thread_create'
../../libgimpbase/.libs/libgimpbase-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_format_size'
/usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0: undefined reference to `g_private_get'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [file-ico] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rick/Downloads/gimp-2.7.4/plug-ins/file-ico'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rick/Downloads/gimp-2.7.4/plug-ins'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rick/Downloads/gimp-2.7.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any help is appreciated.

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin