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Version history for Tux Paint (9x)

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Changes for v0.9.20 - v0.9.21

  • New Starters:
  • Silver Frame Caroline Ford
  • Jigsaw 3x3 & 5x5 Andrew 'akanewbie' Corcoran
  • New Magic Tools:
  • + Blur (entire image mode) - Blurs entire image + Color Shift - Modifies the colors in the image. + Sharpen - Sharpens entire image + Edges - Traces the edges of the image, over a white background. + Silhouette - Creates an outline of the image, over a black background. + Color and White - Turns image pure color & white (no grey or color). + Snow Ball - Places random snow balls over the image. + Snow Flake - Places random snow flakes over the image. + Noise - Adds random noise to the image. + Mosaic - Gives the image a mosaic effect. + Rain - Adds rain drops to the image. + Toothpaste - Squirts "toothpaste" on to the image. By Andrew 'akanewbie' Corcoran (Part of Tux4Kids' participation in Google Summer of Code 2008)
  • + Confetti - Paints random confetti bits on the canvas. + TV - Adds television (CRT) interlacing lines over the image. + Rosette - Paints at 3 points on the screen, in a rosette shape. + Picasso - Paints at 3 points, in a "Picasso" art style. + Wavelets - Waves that go up and down. By Adam 'foo-script' Rakowski (Part of Tux4Kids' participation in Google Summer of Code 2008)
  • + Rails - Draws train tracks / rails over the image. + Fisheye - Warps part of the picture, as though seen through a fisheye. + Fold - Folds the corners of the image up, like a piece of paper. By Adam 'foo-script' Rakowski (GSOC 2008), with modifications by Bill Kendrick and Pere Pujal i Carabantes
  • Real Rainbow - Draw an arc-shaped, photorealistic rainbow. By Bill Kendrick with math help from Jeff Newmiller Rainbow colors/alpha based on photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholas_t/281820290/ photo by Flickr user "Nicholas_T" Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
  • String Edges - Draw string-like patters around the picture. String Corner - Draw aligned string-like patterns. String 'V' - Draw free-form string-like patterns. Tornado (based on Flowers) - Draws a tornado effect onto the picture. By Pere Pujal i Carabantes
  • Icons for some new Magic Tools (Color and White, Fisheye, Mosaic, Picasso, Silhouette, TV and Wavelet) Donelle Cory <8bitonion@gmail.com> http://www.8bitonion.com/portfolio
  • Magic Tool Improvememnts:
  • Added "_switchin()" and "_switchout()" functions to Magic tool API, to tell Magic tools when they are selected or deselected, or when their mode changes..
  • Added "_modes()" function to Magic tool API, so Magic tool plugins can tell Tux Paint what modes it accepts, 'paint' or 'fullscreen'.
  • "_click()" function is now given a 'mode' value, corresponding to the mode the current tool is in.
  • "_get_description()" function is now given a 'mode' value, and is called once for each mode a particular tool claims to support. (e.g., "which=0,mode=MODE_PAINT", then "which=1,mode=MODE_PAINT", then "which=1,mode=MODE_FULLSCREEN")
  • "Paint" and "Fullscreen" control buttons added to Magic tool selector UI. Can be disabled with "--nomagiccontrols".
  • "Negative", "Tint", "Glass Tile", "Darken" and "Lighten" tools can all now affect the entire image.
  • System-Related Improvements:
  • 'savedir' and 'datadir' paths given in configuration files (e.g., ~/.tuxpaintrc) now have any environment variables and tildes (e.g., "~" for $HOME, or "~username" for 'username's home directory) expanded. NOTE: Environment variable expansion via 'wordexp()' -- currently Linux-only. NOTE: 'printcommand' and 'altprintcommand' options not currently parsed for env. vars.
  • On systems that use postscript_print (Linux and other Unix-likes), errors when attempting to issue a print command (e.g., trying to use "lpr", but that command is not available) should appear in Tux Paint. (SourceForge bug #2205528)
  • Build System Improvements:
  • Adhering to Debian & FreeDesktop.org standards regarding .desktop file.
  • Documentation Improvements:
  • Corrected location of config files for Mac OS X in OPTIONS docs.
  • HTML documentation files for the various Magic tools are now generated using a PHP script. Tool details are stored in a PHP array (which is easier-to-edit than individual HTML files).
  • Other Improvements:
  • Starter images no longer need to be created with alpha transparency. Any solid white will be removed automatically by Tux Paint.
  • White always appears as the first color in the "New" dialog, regardless of its position (or even existence) in the color palette.
  • Text tool uses FriBidi to determine when right-to-left characters have been typed (e.g., Hebrew) so that they are drawn in the right direction. (Mixing RtoL and LtoR works (e.g., Hebrew with numerals))
  • Updated to the latest version (2.27) of DejaVu Sans Regular for UI font.
  • Only loads locale-specific fonts (e.g., Tibetan's "bo.ttf", which is unusable with any language _except_ Tibetan) when Tux Paint is running in that locale. (Use "--alllocalefonts" command-line option or "alllocalefonts=yes" config. file option, to load all of those fonts, regardless of locale setting -- the old behavior.)
  • Font scoring system improved, so that fonts that support the current locale (based on special translation strings -- many of which have been submitted or improved) 'bubble up' to the top of the Fonts list when using the Text tool. Pere Pujal i Carabantes and Bill Kendrick with help from: Albert Cahalan , Frank Weng and various translators.
  • New localizations:
  • Shuswap (Secwepemctín) translation Neskie Manuel
  • Songhay translation Abdoul Cisse Mohomodou Houssouba
  • Localization Updates:
  • Afrikaans translation Petri Jooste
  • Arabic translation Tilo
  • Asturian Xandru Armesto
  • Basque translation Juan Irigoien
  • Brazilian Portuguese translation Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes
  • Catalan translation Pere Pujal i Carabantes
  • Chinese (Simplified) translation Huang Zuzhen
  • Chinese (Traditional) translation Frank Weng Song Huang
  • Danish translation Joe Dalton
  • Dutch translation Bert Saal
  • Estonian translation Henrik Pihl
  • French translation Jacques Chion
  • Georgian translation Gia Shervashidze
  • Gujarati translation Kartik Mistry
  • Greek translation Serafeim Kyriaki
  • Hebrew translation Jorge Mariano Guy Hed
  • Hungarian Gabor Kelemen
  • Irish Gaelic Kevin Patrick Scannell
  • Italian translation Simona Riva
  • Kurdish translation Amed Çeko Jiyan
  • Portuguese translation Sergio Marques
  • Romanian translation Sorin Paliga
  • Russian translation Nikolay Parukhin
  • Slovak translation Jaroslav Rynik
  • Slovenian translation Matej Urban
  • Spanish translation Gabriel Gazzan
  • Swedish translation Daniel Nylander
  • Tamil translation Ravishankar Ayyakkannu
  • Ukranian translation Serhij Dubyk
  • Zapotec (Miahuatlan dialect) name and locale code correction
  • Bug Fixes
  • Was inadvertently calling "magic_switchin()" on Quit. Fixed. Dan Shields
  • [Ctrl]+[P] keyboard shortcut for printing was not complying with option to disable printing capability (e.g., "--noprint")! Fixed.
  • Preventing Tux Paint from dropping out of Fullscreen mode when pressing either left or right [Windows] keys Note: Works on Windows XP, 2000 and Vista only. (If Tux Paint is deliberately switched to the background, e.g. using [Alt]+[Tab], the [Windows] keys function as normal until Tux Paint is the active application again.) John Popplewell
  • Directional brushes used to always begin with middle image; now this only happens if you click and release, with dragging. Jason Ward Pere Pujal i Carabantes
  • Corrected bug in postscript printing: images scaled up onto a large canvas printed small, compared to when they're printed at the size they were drawn. Pere Pujal i Carabantes Thomas Kalka
  • Corrected 'oval' brush shape so that colors came out right. (Thanks to Andrei Skoogarev)
  • Improved support for localized Stamp sound effects (e.g., "en_GB" for British English now works; only "en" would have worked before).
  • Fixed minor bug that caused Tux Paint to crash when loading many fonts (i.e., with the 'sysfonts' option). Pere Pujal i Carabantes and Albert Cahalan
  • 'tuxpaint-import' script didn't support files with spaces. Fixed. James Le Cuirot
  • Fixed display bugs and icon positioning in pop-up dialogs when using right-to-left languages (like Hebrew or Arabic).



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