[gimp-web] Make various updates to GIMP 2.9.4 release news.

[Jehan Pagès <jehanp src gnome org>]

commit 81921bc0f9faa44eccc2b71bf8eb853f74edbcde
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date:   Tue Jul 12 05:03:32 2016 +0200

    Make various updates to GIMP 2.9.4 release news.
    
    Alexandre asked me to "fill in the blanks and [...] have a critical
    look". Here is my critical look. Feel free to be critical again above
    it! ;-)
    - Adding some rewording on icon and theme work.
    - MyPaint brushes are still not an independent package (pending review).
    - More details on IME changes and symmetry painting.
    - Adding info on the `with-files` macro and the email plugin.
    - Various fixes.

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diff --git a/content/news/2016-06-02 GIMP 2.9.4 Released/index.md b/content/news/2016-06-02 GIMP 2.9.4 
Released/index.md
index 9435f4a..fac8d42 100644
--- a/content/news/2016-06-02 GIMP 2.9.4 Released/index.md      
+++ b/content/news/2016-06-02 GIMP 2.9.4 Released/index.md      
@@ -16,15 +16,17 @@ The new version features several new themes by Benoit Touchette in various shade
 
 Note that we still consider this feature a work in progress, as dark themes still need some fine-tuning 
(especially regarding the color of inactive menu items).
 
-The new UI themes are accompanied by symbolic icons created by Barbara Muraus, Jakub Steiner, and Klaus 
Staedtler. The existing icon theme from past releases of GIMP has also been preserved, and users can freely 
switch between available icon themes and easily add their own ones.
+The new UI themes are accompanied by symbolic icons originally created by Barbara Muraus, Jakub Steiner, and 
heavily updated and completed by Klaus Staedtler. The existing icon theme from past releases of GIMP has also 
been preserved, and users can freely switch between available icon themes and easily add their own ones.
 
-Klaus Staedtler is also working on vector (SVG) icons for HiDPI displays (also commonly known as Retina). 
It's an experimental feature, available after using '--enable-vector-icons' build configure option.
+Note that themes and icon themes are now separate: you can easily mix your favorite UI with various icon 
sets. Also since most 2.8 themes would end up broken in 2.9.x, themes are not migrated anymore. Users who 
want custom themes will have to install ones specifically made for GIMP 2.9.x/2.10.
 
-We cleaned the Preferences dialog a little and reordered option in a  more logical manner. The Color 
Management page was redesigned following both internal and user-visible changes in relevant parts of GIMP 
(see below), and _Snap Distance_ options have been moved to a dedicated _Snapping_ page.
+All work on icons by Klaus Staedtler is made on vector (SVG) images, which should allow better support for 
HiDPI displays (also commonly known as Retina) soon. Vector icons are an experimental feature, available 
after using '--enable-vector-icons' build configure option. Note that this option does not allow HiDPI 
support at this time.
+
+We cleaned the Preferences dialog a little and reordered options in a  more logical manner. The Color 
Management page was redesigned following both internal and user-visible changes in relevant parts of GIMP 
(see below), and _Snap Distance_ options have been moved to a dedicated _Snapping_ page.
 
 Additionally, it is now possible to configure the size of undo step previews in the Undo dialog via the 
Preferences dialog, which was only possible by manually editing GIMP's configuration file before, by a 
complete oversight on our part.
 
-The startup spalsh screen now features a pulsing progress bar to indicate that GIMP is not frozen. This, as 
well as initializing fontconfig in the background (also a new feature in 2.9.4), is meant to address a common 
issue where rebuilding fonts cache (or building it for the first time) can take a lot of time hence making an 
impression that GIMP freezes at startup. We acknowledge that this is a workaround. Fixing the actual reason 
involves hacking on fontconfig. If you are interested, there is a [bug 
report](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64766) on that.
+The startup splash screen now features a pulsing progress bar to indicate that GIMP is not frozen. This, as 
well as initializing fontconfig in the background (also a new feature in 2.9.4), is meant to address a common 
issue where rebuilding fonts cache (or building it for the first time) can take a lot of time hence making an 
impression that GIMP freezes at startup. We acknowledge that this is a workaround. Fixing the actual reason 
involves hacking on fontconfig. If you are interested, there is a [bug 
report](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64766) on that.
 
 ## Color Management Improvements
 
@@ -94,9 +96,9 @@ While there are no immediate user-visible changes, this reorganizations greatly
 
 The new MyPaint Brush tool is now enabled by default. Daniel Sabo and Michael Natterer improved its 
performance and made MyPaint brushes available via an aready familiar dockable dialog interface, with 
previews and tagging.
 
-Jehan Pagès collaborated with the MyPaint team: he ported libmypaint to autotools and turned default brushes 
into a separately shipped package.
+Jehan Pagès collaborated with the MyPaint team: he ported libmypaint to autotools, allowing in particular 
standard builds on all platforms, and work is being done to turn default brushes into a separately shipped 
package.
 
-Another major new feature is symmetric painting mode, also developed by Jehan Pagès with financial support 
from the GIMP community. (FIXME MORE CONTENT)
+Another major new feature is symmetric painting mode, also developed by Jehan Pagès with financial support 
from the GIMP community. It can be activated through the new "Symmetry Painting" dock, and allows to use all 
paint tools with various symmetries (mirrors, central and rotational symmetry, tiling…).
 
 Additionally, it is now possible to assign a combination like **Shift + Mousewheel** for changing brush size.
 
@@ -106,7 +108,7 @@ For cases when your selection has a lot of small unselected regions, you can now
 
 (FIXME SCREENSHOT)
 
-The `Select > Border...` dialog now provides several border style options: hard, smooth, and feathered. 
_Feathered_ creates a selection that goes gradually from 1 to 0 the farther you get from the middle of the 
border. _Smooth_ preserves partial selection (antialiasing) along the edges of the selection. 
+The `Select > Border...` dialog now provides several border style options: hard, smooth, and feathered. 
_Feathered_ creates a selection that goes gradually from 1 to 0 the farther you get from the middle of the 
border. _Smooth_ preserves partial selection (antialiasing) along the edges of the selection.
 
 ## Better Tools
 
@@ -116,10 +118,20 @@ _Fuzzy Select_ and _Bucket Fill_ tools got a new feature for selecting/filling d
 
 The _Blend_ tool got shapeburst fills resurrected, and allows to place their handles on the canvas. 
Additionally the Blend tool displays progress indication now thanks to a new GEGL feature available in 
several GEGL operations including `gegl:distance-transform`.
 
-The _Text_ tool now fully supports advanced input methods for CJK, and preedit is displayed just as expected.
+The _Text_ tool now fully supports advanced input methods for CJK and other non-western languages. Minimal 
support already existed but the preedit text was displayed in a floating popup instead of inline within the 
text tool box, and without any preview styling. It is now displayed just as expected depending on your 
platform and Input Method Engine. Several input method-related bugs and crashes have also been fixed in the 
same time.
 
 (FIXME SCREENSHOT)
 
+## Batch processing on command line
+
+A new macro `with-files` is now available in order to easily process multiple files through GIMP, on command 
line, which was a much awaited feature.
+
+## Email plugin back from the dead
+
+The `File > Send by email…` dialog will open your default email client with an attached copy of your current 
image, to share your work-in-progress in a single click. This is available only on operating systems with 
`xdg-email` (likely GNU/Linux, BSD only).
+
+The original implementation using `sendmail` is also available, yet since it requires a properly configured 
sendmail, which is not common on desktop machines, the explicit `--with-sendmail` option has to be set at 
build time to replace the `xdg-email` implementation.
+
 ## Misc
 
 * Bug 109161 * Improve Histogram with Luminance Channel