Calligra 2.9 Beta 3 Changelog

[Boudewijn Rempt]

For Krita:

* New splash screen by Tyson Tan!
* Fix noisy complaints from libpng about nothing
* Hide the next/previous blending mode, snap-to-grid and reload-file 
actions because they don't work
* Fix the shortcuts for setting brush opacity
* Fix inverted softness (bug 342747)
* Fix ghost pixels on group layers with no children (bug 331554)
* Fix opacity setting for pattern fill layers
* G'Mic: Add progress reporting for small previews
* G'Mic: Cancel now stops execution of slow filters
* G'Mic: Don't crash when closing the G'Mic dialog after doing nothing
* G'Mic; fix url for updates
* Fix issues with Genius Tablets (bug 342641)
* Fix painting on selection masks
* Make the palettes docker follow the general background color setting
* Add a temporary dialog to fix issues when the desktop resolution and the
wintab resolution don't match up
* Fix crash when using the color transfer filter (bug 342287)
* Fix KToolLine to handle end and cancel requests (bug 336959)
* Fix a bunch of menu options to only be active at the right moment
* Add unit of measurement to offset image dialog
* Fix initialization of the crop tool (bug 342842)
* Improve default values for the crop tool (bug 242844)
* Fix crash in shaped gradient with shaped smaller than 3px wide
(bug 342942)
* Show open/save buttons in the ruler assistant tool on Windows (bug 
342348)
* Add auto-leveling to the adjust/levels filter (Aleksander Demko's first 
patch!)
* Don't push the Copy action on the undo stack (bug 343328)
* Remember the constrain proportions settings in the canvas size dialog 
(bug 343282)
* Fix spacing of rotating brushes (bug 329026)
* Fix crash when selecting the texture option for the pixel brush engine 
(bug 342749)
* Make the "on hover" layer thumbnail configurable (bug 342168)
* Fix an issue where you'd have to press cancel multiple times to close 
Krita (bug 343070)
* Notify the user when copying an empty selection (bug 343092)
* Expand the color picker tool to be able to use a radius up to 900 pixels 
(bug 337406)
* Don't crash if Krita's settings has an active preset that no longer 
exists (bug 340229)
* Don't crash when closing Krita while the reference image docker is still 
loading thumbnails (bug 342896)
* Switch to an appropriate tool when switching between pixel and vector 
layers (bug 335092)
* Support indirect painting mode for masks (bug 318882)
* Don't crash when merging selected layers (bug 343540)
* Bring back the undo docker's preview thumbnails (bug 277884)
* Don't crash when undoing points in polyline stroke or selection (bug 
342921)
* Make shift-z undo points in all poly tools (bug 342921)
* Make the shortcut for undoing poly tool points configurable (bug 342919)
* Disable the arrow keys for panning the canvas by default (bug 342023)
* Update the minimum zoom level after scaling the image (bug 342709)
* Rearrange the settings menu to be more logical (bug 342068)
* Only lock the tools if the layer is invisible, but allow moving and 
deleting of invisible layers (bug 337912)
* Fix issues when working with the color selectors in HDR mode (bug 
343531)
* Don't save the crop tool's force ratio setting (bug 343287)
* Fix cyclic updates of the currently selected color (bug 343531)
* G'Mic: Don't crash when enabling the small preview in interactive 
colorize (bug 343616)
* Fix a crash on loading an image (bug 340752)
* G'Mic: increase the stack size to ridiculous proportions on Windows so 
the parser doesn't crash
* G'Mic: start supporting interactive colorize on Windows (still not done, 
needs adding support for pthreads)
* Follow the settings for visibillity of the scrollbars (bug 342217)
* Fix shaped gradients for selections with holes (bug 343187)
* Fix floodfill for 16 bits integer/channel RGB images (bug 343365)
* Fix the zoom level of the scratchpad
* Fix a big slowdown in the layer properties dialog with big layers and 
big images (bug 343685)
* Fix file layer position resetting
* Add the recent documents to the list in the new images dialog (bug 
340949)
* Fix support for Wacom Airbrush devices. Patch by Arturg. (bug 343545)
* Make the text brush load and display values from the current brush
* Fix the text brush when rotation is set to drawing angle (bug 330185)
* Fix recognizing the bamboo stylus (bug 343545)
* Don't deadlock when loading a fill layer (bug 343734)
* Don't assert when checking the texture option (bug 343837)
* Make it possible again to select an image in the color transfer filter 
on Windows (bug 343706)
* G'Mic: fix a crash when browsing through the filters
* Update the layer thumbnails in the layerbox after every stroke, instead 
of when hovering over the layerbox (bug 343699)


On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:

> Hello,
> We would need to have the Calligra 2.9 Beta 3 change log, preferably
> until tonight. We're releasing tomorrow.
>
> -- 
> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>
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