Re: [Tuxpaint-users] Tux Paint 0.9.22 beta versions for Windows & RPM-based Linux

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

Hi everyone!  TOYAMA Shin-Ichi was kind enough to build a
release-candidate of the next Tux Paint, for Windows and Linux (RPM-based).

Please download it, and try it out!  See below for an earlier email regarding
a beta version, which describes a lot of the new features.  Let us know
if you have any problems!

Note that the stamp builds available at the URLs below
are from a few months ago, so won't include any recent translation
updates.  (Shin-Ichi, if you'd be willing to make new stamps releases,
that would be handy for testing by translators!)

Thanks and enjoy!

-bill!

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:38:41AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> A new version of Tux Paint will be released later this year.
> In the meantime, if you're using Windows 8, 7 or Vista, or
> an RPM-based Linux distro (like RedHat or Fedora),
> or you're comfortable building software from its source-code,
> you can download a beta version NOW!
> 
> All we ask in return is that you give us your feedback.  You'll help
> us ensure that the next release of Tux Paint is as close to perfect
> and bug-free as we can make it.
> 
>   Windows:
>   ftp://ftp.tuxpaint.org/unix/x/tuxpaint/testbuilds/win32/0.9.22-pre/
> 
>   Linux (RPM):
>   ftp://ftp.tuxpaint.org/unix/x/tuxpaint/testbuilds/rpm/0.9.22-pre/
> 
>   Source (from the repository):
>   http://www.tuxpaint.org/download/source/cvs/
> 
> 
> New features to try out:
>  * The "Label" tool, for adding text to a picture that can be altered
>    after the fact.
>  * New "Magic" tools:
>    * Blinds
>    * Mosaic Hexagon, Mosaic Irregular, and Mosaic Square
>    * Pattern
>    * Perspective
>    * Puzzle
>    * ROYGBIV Rainbow
>    * Symmetry Left/Right, and Symmetry Up/Down
>    * Tiles
>    * Wet Paint
>    * XOR Colors
>    * Zoom
>  * Templates -- similar to Starters, but with no immutable top layer.
>  * Starters (and Templates) can be in Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG)
>    or KidPix Templat (PKX) formats.
> 
> Accessibility Improvements:
>  * "Mouse accessibility" option, to allow clicking once to act as
>    a click-and-drag action
>  * On screen keyboard, for Text and Label tools
>  * Keyboard-based mouse controls (arrow keys to move)
>  * Joystick-based mouse controls
> 
> Other changes:
>  * Deleting files from Tux Paint's "Open Dialog" moves them to the
>    desktop's trashcan (Linux only)
>  * Tux Paint remains responsive when FontConfig is busy generating
>    a cache (e.g., the first time you run Tux Paint)
>    (This was already included in a later version of 0.9.21 for Windows)
>  * Thumbnails for "Starter" images are cached, to speed up opening the
>    "New" dialog.
>  * All thumbnails are gamma-corrected.
>  * SVG-based stamps don't default to a huge size.
>  * Tux Paint drawing metadata is now stored within PNGs, rather than
>    as separate files.
>  * Various bug fixes
>  * ...and more!
> 
> New content:
>  * Nearly 2 dozen new Starters
>  * Templates!  Nearly 20 of them.
>  * 2 new brushes.
>  * Over 30 new translations/localizations:
>    Acholi, Akan, Amharic, Aragones, Armenian, Assamese,
>    Bambara, Bosnian, Kiga, Fula, Inuktitut, Kannada, Konkani,
>    Luganda, Luxembourgish, Maithili, Malayalam, Maipuri,
>    Marathi, Nepali, Northern Sotho, Odia, Punjabi, Persian,
>    Sanskrit, Santali, Serbia, Venetian, Zulu
>  * Numerous updates to existing translations
> 
> For the complete list of changes (so far!), see:
> http://tuxpaint.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tuxpaint/tuxpaint/docs/CHANGES.txt
> 
> And, of course, try out all of your favorite, tried-and-true features
> of Tux Paint, to make sure they still work the way you expect them!
> 
> 
> If you're counting on Tux Paint being stable, and keeping younger
> users happy, you should stick to the latest official release,
> of course.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> And thanks to all of the contributors to Tux Paint over the years
> (especially the last 5 years, since we last made an official release).
> Special thanks to TOYAMA Shin-Ichi for producing the beta builds.
> 
> 
> -- 
> -bill!
> Sent from my computer

-- 
-bill!
Sent from my computer