Gimp 2.8 (Currently Preview)

[Gidde]

Well, looks like I'll be switching back to 2.6 for the foreseeable future, which makes me sad. I ran into this problem (namely, the pressure on my tablet doesn't register correctly) while doing my latest handdrawn style test and it looks like there's no fix on the horizon per the 2.7.5 release notes page:

GIMP 2.8 relies on a newer version of GTK+2 that unfortunately has partially broken support for graphics tablets such as Wacom. If your graphic tablet doesn't work in GIMP 2.8 as it should, we recommend downgrading to 2.6 until we release GIMP 3.0 that relies on GTK+3 which has fully functional support for advanced input devices.

[jfrazierjr]

Well, looks like I'll be switching back to 2.6 for the foreseeable future, which makes me sad. I ran into this problem (namely, the pressure on my tablet doesn't register correctly) while doing my latest handdrawn style test and it looks like there's no fix on the horizon per the 2.7.5 release notes page:

Well... if your up for a challenge, you could always try to compile gtk+ yourself. I had some issues after I unplugged my tablet and had to recompile gtk+ with an optional setting to get it to work again(was greyed out as it if could not find it after a re-plug in). However, that was on linux and was a linux specific flag(well.. non Windows specific flag would be more appropriate wording) to the gtk compile script and have had no issues since then.


I assume you have the version from Partha? I don't know if Gimp expects GTK to already be installed(I think the windows version installs for your) or not. However, Partha might be willing to give a try to compile gtk+ if he can find the root cause and the issue is NOT related to a code change he would have to make(ie, he may need to do as I did and pass a flag to the gtk+ compile script)