Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Michael Natterer mi...@gimp.org wrote: On 10/04/2013 10:12 AM, Jehan Pagčs wrote: Also we have a bunch of fixes in gimp-2-8 branch anyway, and it is soon 4 months since 2.8.6. Maybe it is a good time to make a minor release? I feel like there is no much

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote: It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in 2.8.6 for Windows. And I suggest we keep it that way. Committing crime against typography isn't going to make us popular among professionals. Alexandre

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote: It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in 2.8.6 for Windows. And I suggest we keep it that way. Committing crime

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote: It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in 2.8.6 for Windows. And I suggest we keep it that way. Committing crime

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Guillermo Espertino (Gez)
El 04/10/13 05:12, Jehan Pagès escribió: It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in 2.8.6 for Windows. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708110 In my oppinion, that's not a bug, it's an improvement.:-) Bold and Italics variants should be designed

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread sigetch
You should know the situation for the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts. There are more than 15,000 characters to be designed, so that little font set has bold and italics face. In those countries, the bug reported above is very serious and critical. We have to have options to use simulated