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From: TOYAMA Shin-i. <sh...@wm...> - 2014-08-12 07:43:38
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Hi!
New stamp packages are available.
See
http://z1.plala.jp/tuxpaint/testing/
Thanks!
Bill Kendrick wrote in <201...@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
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