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30.11.01 : Babygimp 0.41 released (have a look at the changelog)

What the hell is this?

- Babygimp is an icon editor for Linux written in Perl/Tk. The goal of Babygimp was to provide an icon editor which is easy to use and easy to install but nevertheless provides enough features to create really cool icons. Since Babygimp is entirely written in Perl it is not apt for handling large images. However for small icons Perl is efficient enough.

Does it run under Windows ?

- Who cares?

Which extraordinary features has it?

- Currently Babygimp provides among others the following features:

• The usual drawing tools (lines, rectangles, ellipses etc.)
• Different drawing modes and semitransparent drawing
• Different sorts of gradients (e.g. semitransparent)
• Color manipulations (eg. contrast enhancement, enhancement of color tones)
• Transformations like scaling and rotation,
• A clipboard. This is extremely useful if you want to combine or merge existing images.
• Copying, moving and manipulating selected rectangular regions of the image.
• Some sort of plugin support. This means that Babygimp can serve as a frontend to console image manipulation programs (e.g. ImageMagick or Netpbm). Plugins may also be applied to selected regions of the image. Babygimp also includes a plugin editor which lets you create the plugin gui in a minute.

Can you show me a screenshot?

- Currently, only a screenshot of the main window (reduced to 75%) is available. Perhaps later i will provide more.

This sounds cool - but did you tell me the whole truth?

- Since Babygimp is written entirely in perl it is of course not very fast. Therefore it is not a good idea to use Babygimp for large images (its only Babygimp, not the real Gimp). However for small icons it should be fast enough.

Do i need additional packages in order to run Babygimp?

- Basically all you need is Perl and Perl/Tk.
However in order to take full advantage of the plugin support, you should have ImageMagick or Netpbm installed (this should be the case in almost every Linux system).

I'm a newbie and i'm afraid of a complicated installation procedure.

- Babygimp needs no ``installation''. Just copy it somewhere in your path and set the apropriate permission (chmod a+x babygimp).
If your Perl is not located in /usr/bin/ you have to change the first line of babygimp, e.g. ``#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w'' instead of ``#!/usr/bin/perl -w''. The shell command ``which perl'' shows you where your Perl is located.

I am sure, Babygimp is fucking shareware and you want to get paid for it!

- Babygimp is licensed under the GPL (Copyright Christian Lederer).

I'm tired of your long rigmarole, i want to download it!

- The current version is Babygimp 0.41 (200 k). Note, that this is a development release ( i used it extensively for a week and it seemed stable).

The elder versions are currently not available.

How can i contact the author?

- Send a mail to <christianlederer@web.de>.

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