Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[C R]

Thanks Elle. I may try again next weekend. In the mean time I can look
forward to using all the new features and improvements. Thanks for the
response!
On 29 Nov 2015 6:39 pm, "Elle Stone"  wrote:

> On 11/29/2015 12:41 PM, C R wrote:
>
>> I could not successfully get gegl to build from source.
>>
>
> My apologies for not responding sooner. It sounds like you might have had
> an issue with establishing the prefix, either during installation or
> possibly when starting/running GIMP.
>
> If you decide to try installing from git again, I know of two people who
> successfully (and very recently) installed and ran babl/GEGL/GIMP from git
> on Ubuntu following these (no doubt overly verbose :) ) instructions:
> http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/build-gimp-in-prefix-for-artists.html
>
> Normally I run Gentoo, but several months ago I followed these same
> instructions to build babl/GEGL/GIMP from git on Debian Sid and OpenSUSE.
>
> Best,
> Elle
>
>
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Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[Elle Stone]

On 11/29/2015 12:41 PM, C R wrote:

I could not successfully get gegl to build from source.


My apologies for not responding sooner. It sounds like you might have 
had an issue with establishing the prefix, either during installation or 
possibly when starting/running GIMP.


If you decide to try installing from git again, I know of two people who 
successfully (and very recently) installed and ran babl/GEGL/GIMP from 
git on Ubuntu following these (no doubt overly verbose :) ) 
instructions: 
http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/build-gimp-in-prefix-for-artists.html


Normally I run Gentoo, but several months ago I followed these same 
instructions to build babl/GEGL/GIMP from git on Debian Sid and OpenSUSE.


Best,
Elle

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Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[kungfu07]

Big *THANK YOU*  and  Congratulations! 



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Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[C R]

I could not successfully get gegl to build from source. I spent ages trying.
Luckily someone updated the edge ppa and it now installs fine:

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/gimp-29-210-development-builds.html

I then had to run:
sudo apt-get build-dep gegl

then
sudo apt-get install gegl

and now it runs fine.

Hope that helps someone.

-C
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Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[Thorsten Stettin]

Am 28.11.2015 um 02:26 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:

Hi,

We originally wanted to get this done on GIMP's 20th
birthday last week, but...

Anyway, here is the first development release in the
GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.

GIMP 2.9.3 or 2.9.2? :-D

...and there's more info in the news post:

http://www.gimp.org/news/2015/11/27/gimp-2-9-2-released/

Alex
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Der eine ist die Liebe, der zweite ist die Genügsamkeit, der dritte ist die 
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Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[Thorsten Stettin]

Am 28.11.2015 um 17:38 schrieb Partha Bagchi:

Git is odd number and release versions are even numbers. :)

   I might have known it. :-P



On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Thorsten Stettin
 wrote:

Am 28.11.2015 um 02:26 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:

Hi,

We originally wanted to get this done on GIMP's 20th
birthday last week, but...

Anyway, here is the first development release in the
GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.

GIMP 2.9.3 or 2.9.2? :-D

...and there's more info in the news post:

http://www.gimp.org/news/2015/11/27/gimp-2-9-2-released/

Alex
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Der eine ist die Liebe, der zweite ist die Genügsamkeit, der dritte ist die
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Und er sagt auch: Ich habe drei Schätze, die ich hüte und hege.
Der eine ist die Liebe, der zweite ist die Genügsamkeit, der dritte ist die 
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Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[Partha Bagchi]

Git is odd number and release versions are even numbers. :)

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Thorsten Stettin
 wrote:
> Am 28.11.2015 um 02:26 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We originally wanted to get this done on GIMP's 20th
>>> birthday last week, but...
>>>
>>> Anyway, here is the first development release in the
>>> GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.
>
> GIMP 2.9.3 or 2.9.2? :-D
>>
>> ...and there's more info in the news post:
>>
>> http://www.gimp.org/news/2015/11/27/gimp-2-9-2-released/
>>
>> Alex
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> Und er sagt auch: Ich habe drei Schätze, die ich hüte und hege.
> Der eine ist die Liebe, der zweite ist die Genügsamkeit, der dritte ist die
> Demut.
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> Demütige ist fähig zu herrschen.
>
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Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[C R]

Thanks to the development team and everyone who has contributed to this
monumental step! I use GIMP every day and have processed over one hundred
thousand images with it already. So thanks so much for this tremendous
gift, I can't wait to test the new features!

One question, can someone put together a step-by-step for compiling it
(including babl and gegl) under Ubuntu? I've been trying, but can't seem to
get gegl installed correctly. It says it's not installed, when clearly it
is (even the latest version from git).

Thanks for any help.

-C

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Boudewijn Rempt  wrote:

> Congratulations!
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Michael Natterer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> We originally wanted to get this done on GIMP's 20th
>> birthday last week, but...
>>
>> Anyway, here is the first development release in the
>> GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.
>>
>> This is an unstable development preview and might crash
>> or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save your
>> images more often.
>>
>> GIMP 2.9's major new feature is GEGL (www.gegl.org), a graph
>> based image processing framework. The entire old pixel
>> manipulation core of GIMP has been removed and replaced
>> by GEGL. Most internal processing is now done at floating
>> point precision, and images can be kept around at 16-bit
>> and 32-bit integer and floating point precisions. Many
>> plug-ins have already been replaced by GEGL operations
>> and can be previewed live on the canvas.
>>
>> For a complete list of changes since 2.8.0 please see the
>> "Changes" section below. We will also post more detailed
>> news about GIMP 2.9 on www.gimp.org soon, stay tuned.
>>
>> Happy GIMPing,
>> --Mitch
>>
>>
>> Download
>> 
>>
>>   GIMP 2.9.2 is available from:
>>
>>   http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/
>>
>>   and from the mirrors listed at:
>>
>>   http://www.gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors
>>
>>   Please use the torrent, it distributes
>>   the download bandwidth across all mirrors:
>>
>>   http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/gimp-2.9.2.tar.bz2.torrent
>>
>>   The checksum of the tarball is:
>>
>>   aa8a846a497e3328c5b7d2fd33f5cf63  gimp-2.9.2.tar.bz2
>>
>>
>>
>> Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.0 to GIMP 2.9.2
>> =
>>
>> Core:
>>
>>   The core got completely ported to GEGL, listing all changes involved
>>   would be too much, therefore we summarize the changes in app/ per
>>   source subdirectory:
>>
>>   base
>>   composite
>>   paint-funcs:
>>   - Remove these directories, they contained the old pixel
>> manipulation functions
>>
>>   config:
>>   - Remove GimpBaseConfig, add GimpGeglConfig
>>   - Add config options for new features
>>
>>   core:
>>   - Add some things that used to live in base/, like the temp-buf,
>> boundary and histogram code
>>   - Port all functions to GEGL and higher bit depths
>>   - Keep the image around as GEGL graph, all other compositing is gone
>>   - Add non-destructive drawable filters, but use them only for
>> previews
>>   - Implement the floating selection as drawable filter
>>   - Implement GimpImageMap using drawable filters
>>   - Move batch processing to gimp-batch.[ch]
>>   - Run batch commands in an already running GIMP instance
>>   - Ported almost everything from filenames/FILE/fd to GFile/GIO
>>   - Be smarter about migrating old user config files
>>   - Move many object struct members to private structs
>>
>>   file:
>>   - Support GIO-ported file load/save procs, handle remote files
>> generically
>>
>>   - Add content locking to items to prevent them from being edited
>>   - Add position locking to items to prevent them from being translated
>>   - Implement all color management in the core
>>   - Add an automatic palette of recently used colors
>>   - Implement metadata handling in the core
>>
>>   gegl:
>>   - Now contains utility functions and abstractions to work with
>> GEGL more easily
>>   - Move all operations to the new operations/ directory
>>
>>   operations:
>>   - New directory containing all GIMP-internal GEGL operations
>> and their config objects (if any)
>>   - Add a correct version of the overlay layer mode
>>   - Add LCH layer modes
>>
>>   paint:
>>   - Port all paint cores to Gegl
>>   - Add MyPaint brush paint core
>>
>>   pdb:
>>   - Add compat procedures that work like the removed plug-ins
>>   - Use the new GimpValueArray, GValueArray got deprecated
>>
>>   plug-in:
>>   - Allow plug-ins to access image data at full bit depth
>>   - Add a compat mode so unported plug-ins always get 8-bit data
>>
>>   text:
>>   - Port text rendering to GEGL
>>   - Use HarfBuzz to inspect fonts for creating an example string
>>
>>   xcf:
>>   - Add zlib compression to XCF loading/saving
>>
>>
>> GUI:
>>
>>   - Add GUI to handle the new high bit depths and conversion between
>> them
>>   - Add new action group "filters" which can run arbitrary GEGL ops
>>   - Add lots of 

Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[Partha Bagchi]

You probably don't have gegl in your PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Have you checked that?

What do you get when you do
set | grep PATH
?


On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 2:25 PM, C R  wrote:
> Thanks to the development team and everyone who has contributed to this
> monumental step! I use GIMP every day and have processed over one hundred
> thousand images with it already. So thanks so much for this tremendous
> gift, I can't wait to test the new features!
>
> One question, can someone put together a step-by-step for compiling it
> (including babl and gegl) under Ubuntu? I've been trying, but can't seem to
> get gegl installed correctly. It says it's not installed, when clearly it
> is (even the latest version from git).
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> -C
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Boudewijn Rempt  wrote:
>
>> Congratulations!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Michael Natterer wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We originally wanted to get this done on GIMP's 20th
>>> birthday last week, but...
>>>
>>> Anyway, here is the first development release in the
>>> GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.
>>>
>>> This is an unstable development preview and might crash
>>> or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save your
>>> images more often.
>>>
>>> GIMP 2.9's major new feature is GEGL (www.gegl.org), a graph
>>> based image processing framework. The entire old pixel
>>> manipulation core of GIMP has been removed and replaced
>>> by GEGL. Most internal processing is now done at floating
>>> point precision, and images can be kept around at 16-bit
>>> and 32-bit integer and floating point precisions. Many
>>> plug-ins have already been replaced by GEGL operations
>>> and can be previewed live on the canvas.
>>>
>>> For a complete list of changes since 2.8.0 please see the
>>> "Changes" section below. We will also post more detailed
>>> news about GIMP 2.9 on www.gimp.org soon, stay tuned.
>>>
>>> Happy GIMPing,
>>> --Mitch
>>>
>>>
>>> Download
>>> 
>>>
>>>   GIMP 2.9.2 is available from:
>>>
>>>   http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/
>>>
>>>   and from the mirrors listed at:
>>>
>>>   http://www.gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors
>>>
>>>   Please use the torrent, it distributes
>>>   the download bandwidth across all mirrors:
>>>
>>>   http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/gimp-2.9.2.tar.bz2.torrent
>>>
>>>   The checksum of the tarball is:
>>>
>>>   aa8a846a497e3328c5b7d2fd33f5cf63  gimp-2.9.2.tar.bz2
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.0 to GIMP 2.9.2
>>> =
>>>
>>> Core:
>>>
>>>   The core got completely ported to GEGL, listing all changes involved
>>>   would be too much, therefore we summarize the changes in app/ per
>>>   source subdirectory:
>>>
>>>   base
>>>   composite
>>>   paint-funcs:
>>>   - Remove these directories, they contained the old pixel
>>> manipulation functions
>>>
>>>   config:
>>>   - Remove GimpBaseConfig, add GimpGeglConfig
>>>   - Add config options for new features
>>>
>>>   core:
>>>   - Add some things that used to live in base/, like the temp-buf,
>>> boundary and histogram code
>>>   - Port all functions to GEGL and higher bit depths
>>>   - Keep the image around as GEGL graph, all other compositing is gone
>>>   - Add non-destructive drawable filters, but use them only for
>>> previews
>>>   - Implement the floating selection as drawable filter
>>>   - Implement GimpImageMap using drawable filters
>>>   - Move batch processing to gimp-batch.[ch]
>>>   - Run batch commands in an already running GIMP instance
>>>   - Ported almost everything from filenames/FILE/fd to GFile/GIO
>>>   - Be smarter about migrating old user config files
>>>   - Move many object struct members to private structs
>>>
>>>   file:
>>>   - Support GIO-ported file load/save procs, handle remote files
>>> generically
>>>
>>>   - Add content locking to items to prevent them from being edited
>>>   - Add position locking to items to prevent them from being translated
>>>   - Implement all color management in the core
>>>   - Add an automatic palette of recently used colors
>>>   - Implement metadata handling in the core
>>>
>>>   gegl:
>>>   - Now contains utility functions and abstractions to work with
>>> GEGL more easily
>>>   - Move all operations to the new operations/ directory
>>>
>>>   operations:
>>>   - New directory containing all GIMP-internal GEGL operations
>>> and their config objects (if any)
>>>   - Add a correct version of the overlay layer mode
>>>   - Add LCH layer modes
>>>
>>>   paint:
>>>   - Port all paint cores to Gegl
>>>   - Add MyPaint brush paint core
>>>
>>>   pdb:
>>>   - Add compat procedures that work like the removed plug-ins
>>>   - Use the new GimpValueArray, GValueArray got deprecated
>>>
>>>   plug-in:
>>>   - Allow plug-ins to access image data at full bit depth
>>>   - Add a compat mode so unported plug-ins always get 8-bit data
>>>
>>>   text:
>>>   - Port text 

Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We originally wanted to get this done on GIMP's 20th
> birthday last week, but...
>
> Anyway, here is the first development release in the
> GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.

...and there's more info in the news post:

http://www.gimp.org/news/2015/11/27/gimp-2-9-2-released/

Alex
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[Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[Michael Natterer]

Hi,

We originally wanted to get this done on GIMP's 20th
birthday last week, but...

Anyway, here is the first development release in the
GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.

This is an unstable development preview and might crash
or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save your
images more often.

GIMP 2.9's major new feature is GEGL (www.gegl.org), a graph
based image processing framework. The entire old pixel
manipulation core of GIMP has been removed and replaced
by GEGL. Most internal processing is now done at floating
point precision, and images can be kept around at 16-bit
and 32-bit integer and floating point precisions. Many
plug-ins have already been replaced by GEGL operations
and can be previewed live on the canvas.

For a complete list of changes since 2.8.0 please see the
"Changes" section below. We will also post more detailed
news about GIMP 2.9 on www.gimp.org soon, stay tuned.

Happy GIMPing,
--Mitch


Download


  GIMP 2.9.2 is available from:

  http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/

  and from the mirrors listed at:

  http://www.gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors

  Please use the torrent, it distributes
  the download bandwidth across all mirrors:

  http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/gimp-2.9.2.tar.bz2.torrent

  The checksum of the tarball is:

  aa8a846a497e3328c5b7d2fd33f5cf63  gimp-2.9.2.tar.bz2



Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.0 to GIMP 2.9.2
=

Core:

  The core got completely ported to GEGL, listing all changes involved
  would be too much, therefore we summarize the changes in app/ per
  source subdirectory:

  base
  composite
  paint-funcs:
  - Remove these directories, they contained the old pixel
manipulation functions

  config:
  - Remove GimpBaseConfig, add GimpGeglConfig
  - Add config options for new features

  core:
  - Add some things that used to live in base/, like the temp-buf,
boundary and histogram code
  - Port all functions to GEGL and higher bit depths
  - Keep the image around as GEGL graph, all other compositing is gone
  - Add non-destructive drawable filters, but use them only for
    previews
  - Implement the floating selection as drawable filter
  - Implement GimpImageMap using drawable filters
  - Move batch processing to gimp-batch.[ch]
  - Run batch commands in an already running GIMP instance
  - Ported almost everything from filenames/FILE/fd to GFile/GIO
  - Be smarter about migrating old user config files
  - Move many object struct members to private structs

  file:
  - Support GIO-ported file load/save procs, handle remote files 
    generically

  - Add content locking to items to prevent them from being edited
  - Add position locking to items to prevent them from being translated
  - Implement all color management in the core
  - Add an automatic palette of recently used colors
  - Implement metadata handling in the core

  gegl:
  - Now contains utility functions and abstractions to work with
GEGL more easily
  - Move all operations to the new operations/ directory

  operations:
  - New directory containing all GIMP-internal GEGL operations
and their config objects (if any)
  - Add a correct version of the overlay layer mode
  - Add LCH layer modes

  paint:
  - Port all paint cores to Gegl
  - Add MyPaint brush paint core

  pdb:
  - Add compat procedures that work like the removed plug-ins
  - Use the new GimpValueArray, GValueArray got deprecated

  plug-in:
  - Allow plug-ins to access image data at full bit depth
  - Add a compat mode so unported plug-ins always get 8-bit data

  text:
  - Port text rendering to GEGL
  - Use HarfBuzz to inspect fonts for creating an example string

  xcf:
  - Add zlib compression to XCF loading/saving


GUI:

  - Add GUI to handle the new high bit depths and conversion between 
    them
  - Add new action group "filters" which can run arbitrary GEGL ops
  - Add lots of actions invoking GEGL ops that replace removed plug-ins
  - Preview all GEGL ops live on the canvas, using drawable filters
  - Mostly switch from using stock-ids to icon-names
  - Turn all stock icons into named icons and add an icon theme
  - Allow selecting colors from an image's colormap
  - Add "Show in file manager" to everything that has a filename
  - Add an action search dialog to find actions by keyword and execute 
    them
  - Split the save dialog into subclasses for load, save and export
  - Implement various color management dialogs that were in the lcms 
    plug-in
  - Make sure windows appear on the correct monitor
  - Simplify and reduce the actions that modify paint tool behavior
  - Add canvas rotation and flipping
  - Allow zooming to the selection
  - Make the image tab position configurable in single window mode
  - Add separate snapping settings for fullscreen mode
  - Remove bitmaps cursors and only support RGBA cursors
  - Color manage drawable and image thumbnails
  - Add more format string options for the image 

Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Congratulations!

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Michael Natterer wrote:


Hi,

We originally wanted to get this done on GIMP's 20th
birthday last week, but...

Anyway, here is the first development release in the
GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.

This is an unstable development preview and might crash
or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save your
images more often.

GIMP 2.9's major new feature is GEGL (www.gegl.org), a graph
based image processing framework. The entire old pixel
manipulation core of GIMP has been removed and replaced
by GEGL. Most internal processing is now done at floating
point precision, and images can be kept around at 16-bit
and 32-bit integer and floating point precisions. Many
plug-ins have already been replaced by GEGL operations
and can be previewed live on the canvas.

For a complete list of changes since 2.8.0 please see the
"Changes" section below. We will also post more detailed
news about GIMP 2.9 on www.gimp.org soon, stay tuned.

Happy GIMPing,
--Mitch


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Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.0 to GIMP 2.9.2
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Core:

  The core got completely ported to GEGL, listing all changes involved
  would be too much, therefore we summarize the changes in app/ per
  source subdirectory:

  base
  composite
  paint-funcs:
  - Remove these directories, they contained the old pixel
manipulation functions

  config:
  - Remove GimpBaseConfig, add GimpGeglConfig
  - Add config options for new features

  core:
  - Add some things that used to live in base/, like the temp-buf,
boundary and histogram code
  - Port all functions to GEGL and higher bit depths
  - Keep the image around as GEGL graph, all other compositing is gone
  - Add non-destructive drawable filters, but use them only for
    previews
  - Implement the floating selection as drawable filter
  - Implement GimpImageMap using drawable filters
  - Move batch processing to gimp-batch.[ch]
  - Run batch commands in an already running GIMP instance
  - Ported almost everything from filenames/FILE/fd to GFile/GIO
  - Be smarter about migrating old user config files
  - Move many object struct members to private structs

  file:
  - Support GIO-ported file load/save procs, handle remote files 
    generically

  - Add content locking to items to prevent them from being edited
  - Add position locking to items to prevent them from being translated
  - Implement all color management in the core
  - Add an automatic palette of recently used colors
  - Implement metadata handling in the core

  gegl:
  - Now contains utility functions and abstractions to work with
GEGL more easily
  - Move all operations to the new operations/ directory

  operations:
  - New directory containing all GIMP-internal GEGL operations
and their config objects (if any)
  - Add a correct version of the overlay layer mode
  - Add LCH layer modes

  paint:
  - Port all paint cores to Gegl
  - Add MyPaint brush paint core

  pdb:
  - Add compat procedures that work like the removed plug-ins
  - Use the new GimpValueArray, GValueArray got deprecated

  plug-in:
  - Allow plug-ins to access image data at full bit depth
  - Add a compat mode so unported plug-ins always get 8-bit data

  text:
  - Port text rendering to GEGL
  - Use HarfBuzz to inspect fonts for creating an example string

  xcf:
  - Add zlib compression to XCF loading/saving


GUI:

  - Add GUI to handle the new high bit depths and conversion between 
    them
  - Add new action group "filters" which can run arbitrary GEGL ops
  - Add lots of actions invoking GEGL ops that replace removed plug-ins
  - Preview all GEGL ops live on the canvas, using drawable filters
  - Mostly switch from using stock-ids to icon-names
  - Turn all stock icons into named icons and add an icon theme
  - Allow selecting colors from an image's colormap
  - Add "Show in file manager" to everything that has a filename
  - Add an action search dialog to find actions by keyword and execute 
    them
  - Split the save dialog into subclasses for load, save and export
  - Implement various color management dialogs that were in the lcms 
    plug-in
  - Make sure windows appear on the correct monitor
  - Simplify and reduce the actions that modify paint tool behavior
  - Add canvas rotation and flipping
  - Allow zooming to the selection
  - Make the image tab position configurable in single window mode
  - Add separate snapping settings for fullscreen mode
  - Remove bitmaps cursors and only support RGBA cursors
  - Color manage drawable and