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intltool has long been dead upstream. Let's not poke the dead corpse, please. This commit is quite large, but that's mostly since trying to support a hybrid of both gettext and intltool with both Meson and Autotools was really hard, so I stopped trying. Due to gettext relying on quite some things being at the exactly right place in the autotools build (like `ABOUT-NLS` and `config.rpath`) we really needed to cleanup the `autogen.sh` to only call `aclocal` and `autoreconf`. No more strange magic; I tried to do it without changing too much in the file, and things just broke. If people want to do something more custom, they can just change the script directly. This change also uncovered some problems in our `configure.ac`, like using deprecated macros. The following major changes happened: * meson: Changed `custom_target()` to `i18n.merge_file()` for all supported file types * Added `.its` and `.loc` files for the GIMP-specific XML formats, so that gettext understands them * For the `.isl` (Window installer stuff) file, there's no easy way to do this in gettext, so instead we start from an XML file (again with its own ITS rules etc), translate that with gettext, and then use `xsltproc` with a bit of magic to output the .isl file for each language * the `po*/Makefile.in.in` files are migrated to `Makevars` files, which gettext natively understands. Fixes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/8028
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GNU Image Manipulation Program
2.99 Development Branch
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This is an unstable development release, an intermediate state on the
way to the next stable release: GIMP 3. GIMP 2.99 may or may not do what
you expect. Save your work early and often. If you want a stable
version, please use GIMP 2.10 instead.
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 devel-docs/README.md.
For detailed installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
1. Web Resources
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GIMP's home page is at:
https://www.gimp.org/
Please be sure to visit this site for information, documentation,
tutorials, news, etc. All things GIMP-ish are available from there.
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:
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
2. Mailing Lists
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We have several mailing lists dedicated to GIMP user and development
discussion. There is more info at
https://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html
Links to several archives of the mailing lists are included in that page.
Gimp-user-list is a mailing list dedicated to user problems, hints and
tips, discussion of cool effects, etc. Gimp-developer-list is oriented
to GIMP core and plug-in developers. Gimp-gui-list is for discussing
about GIMP interface to improve user experience. Most people will only
want to be subscribed to gimp-user-list. If you want to help develop
GIMP, the gimp-developer mailing list is a good starting point; if you
want to help with GUI design, the gimp-gui list is where you want to
subscribe.
3. IRC
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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
4. Customizing
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The look of GIMP's interface can be customized like any other GTK+ app
by editing files in `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/gtk-3.0/` (settings.ini and
gtk.css in particular) or by using "themes" (ready-made customizations).
Additionally, GIMP reads `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/GIMP/2.99/gimp.css` so you
can have settings that only apply to GIMP.
You can also manually change the keybindings to any of your choice by
editing: `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/GIMP/2.99/menurc`.
Have fun,
Spencer Kimball
Peter Mattis
Federico Mena
Manish Singh
Sven Neumann
Michael Natterer
Dave Neary
Martin Nordholts
Jehan