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- GNU Image Manipulation Program
- Version 2.6
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-
- GIMP 2.6 replaces earlier GIMP 2.x versions. It is advised that you
- uninstall them before installing GIMP 2.6. If you want to keep your
- older GIMP 2.x installation in parallel to GIMP 2.6, you have to
- choose a separate prefix which is not in your default library search
- path. Otherwise your GIMP 2.4 or GIMP 2.2 installation will start to
- use the new libraries. You have been warned.
-
- If you think you found a bug in this version, please make sure that it
- hasn't been reported earlier and that it is not just new stuff that is
- still being worked on and obviously not quite finished yet.
-
- If you want to hack on GIMP, please read the file HACKING. For
- detailed installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
-
-
- 1. Web Resources
- ================
-
- GIMP's home page is at:
-
- http://www.gimp.org/
-
- Please be sure to visit this site for information, documentation,
- tutorials, news, etc. All things GIMP-ish are available from there.
-
- The automated plug-in registry is located at:
-
- http://registry.gimp.org/
-
- There you can get the latest versions of plug-ins, using a convenient
- forms-based interface.
-
- The latest version of GIMP can be found at:
-
- http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
-
-
- 2. Mailing Lists
- ================
-
- We have several mailing lists dedicated to GIMP user and development
- discussion. There is more info at
-
- http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html
-
- Links to several archives of the mailing lists are included in that page.
-
- Gimp-announce is a low-traffic list with announcements about new
- releases of GIMP and plug-ins. Gimp-user is a mailing list dedicated
- to user problems, hints and tips, discussion of cool effects, etc.
- Gimp-developer is oriented to GIMP core and plug-in developers. Most
- people will only want to be subscribed to gimp-user. If you want to
- help develop GIMP, the gimp-developer mailing list is a good starting
- point.
-
- There is also a mailing list, "gimpwin-users", dedicated to users of the
- Win32 port. To subscribe, send an empty message to
-
- gimpwin-users-subscribe@egroups.com
-
- You can also use the web interface at
- http://www.egroups.com/group/gimpwin-users/. Note that as this mailing
- list is hosted on egroups.com, the messages from the list contain
- relatively unintrusive and easily ignored advertisements at the
- end. But if you are absolutely allergic to ads, don't subscribe.
-
-
- 3. IRC
- ======
-
- And finally, for the real junkies, there is an IRC channel devoted to
- GIMP. On GIMPNet (a private free software oriented network) there is
- #gimp. Many of the developers hang out there. Some of the GIMPNet
- servers are:
-
- irc.gimp.org:6667
- irc.us.gimp.org:6667
- irc.eu.gimp.org:6667
-
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- 4. Customizing
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-
- The look of GIMP's interface can be customized like any other GTK app
- by editing the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file or by using "themes" (ready-made
- customizations). For downloadable themes and further details, see
- http://gtk.themes.org. Additionally, GIMP reads ~/.gimp-2.6/gtkrc so
- you can have settings that only apply to GIMP.
-
- Included is a set of keybindings similar to those in Adobe Photoshop.
- You can find them in the ps-menurc file. To use them, copy this file
- to ~/.gimp-2.6/menurc. You can also manually change the keybindings to
- any of your choice by editing ~/.gimp-2.6/menurc.
-
-
- Have fun,
-
- Spencer Kimball
- Peter Mattis
- Federico Mena
- Manish Singh
- Sven Neumann
- Michael Natterer
- Dave Neary
- Martin Nordholts
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