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Gimp User Manual 2.0

The GIMP User Manual is a newly written User Manual for the GIMP. It is written for the GIMP Help Browser, but can produce the Help pages for other mediums as well.

Status of the documentation

• GimpDocsRoadmap - the road to 2.4

• GimpDocsWip (Work In Progress).

• GimpDocsMissing - topics which are undocumented.

How can I contribute

1. TipsForContributing

2. follow our GimpDocsFormattingStyleguide.

3. join at GimpDocsOpenTasks

Development/Open Discussion

• GimpDocsWorkflow - how we can improve our work flow?

• GimpDocsTemplates

Suggestions and Wishlist

Users can make suggestions to the document team, which terms should be documented immediately. Add your suggestion and let us know, why this term should be documented:

• A color replacement tool would be awsome (something like the photoshop tool)

• (re)configuring keyboard shortcuts (using Dynamic Shortcuts, the new Shortcut Editor or simply by editing the menurc)

• the new file-chooser dialogs and how to use them best (explain keybindings and the use of bookmarks)

• copy and paste between GIMP and other apps (what works, what doesn't)

• drag and drop (inside GIMP and to and from other apps)

• the new input controllers and how to use them

  • configuring the mouse wheel

  • configuring the cursor keys

  • fancy USB input devices

  • using MIDI equipment as GIMP input devices

• setting up a tablet for use in GIMP

• a collection of tips and tricks focusing on stuff that's new in 2.2

• nifty things you can tweak in the Preferences dialog and in gimprc

• customizing the GIMP user interface

• customizing the splash image

• batch processing images

• de-select current selection

• hand tool

• gradient editor needs a lot of work

• move selection without moving the contents of the selection, also, being able to move the selection while making the selection

• short-cut editor, it would be nice to change all the shortcuts.

• the help files to be included in the full installation

• the info window to include the size of the selection in pixels

Translations

We try to provide as many translations for the gimp user manual as possible. The list below shows which translations exist. Please keep in mind that the translation process is not in sync with the writing of the english manual. You can click on a list item to get to the project page of the translated manual.

• GimpDocsChinese 中文

• GimpDocsCzech

• GimpDocsDeutsch

• GimpDocsFrench

• GimpDocsItalian

• GimpDocsPolish

• GimpDocsSpanish

• GimpDocsSwedish

• GimpDocsKorean 한국어

Authors

See GimpDocsAuthors page for the authors of the manual.

Links

• Source Code View of gimp-help-2 - Source Code View of gimp-help-2 (actually not working - 404)

  Docbook: The Definitive Guide (online version) - Docbook: The Definitive Guide (online version)

  http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html - DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide

  oasis-open.org - DocBook project page

  http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/ - HTML parameter reference for docbook stylesheets

  http://www.kuhcampus.de/~roman/gimp-help-2/C/ - english docs, which are updated frequently

  http://www.macgimp.org/howto/ - Building GIMP 1.2.5 on MacOS X 10.3 (Panther)

  http://www.linux-magazine.com/Writers/Format - Hints for authors from the linux magazine

  http://www.linux-user.de/Info/autoren.html - Autorenhinweise der deutschen Ausgabe LinuxUser

I am not familiar with DocBook XML at all - would it be possible to have a short tutorial on the very basics written? I found the book somewhat intimidating...

Also, do you think that it would be possible to divorce the writing of the content from the DocBook markup? That is, have people write docs, and have other people (possibly the same) mark them up to DocBook?

Cheers, Dave.

• I'll setup a little introduction for Docbook XML. It isn't that hard to learn and understand. I think it is possible to divorce the writing content from DocBook markup, but it depends on the quality of contributed content and the amount. For now, I suppose that everyone can write Docs (okey... we should setup some pages for contributing) on the wiki. I'll continue writing in XML and looking forward to markup the contributions.

  Greetings, Roman

Seems gnome.org has changed from CVS to SVN, thus the login step-by-step on the translationpages doesn't work. I don't know how to login to SVN so I cannot fix this myself.

Hejdå, David

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