GIMP 2.99.2 Released With GTK3 UI, Working Wayland Support, Other Big Changes

[ElectricPrism]

It seems to crash when built from the AUR with babl-git and gegl-git in app on File -> New dialog (GIMP_2_99_2-75-g60f1095d4b).

[ssokolow]

Vala compiles to C and GObject Introspection so, if Vala is supported for plugins, it shouldn't be too difficult to unofficially support Rust plugins via GIR binding work being done for things like gtk-rs.

[Azpegath]

Another great step is that the Python 2 dependency is removed and it now uses Python 3!
I switched to the 2.99 release half a year back, to be able to get rid of almost all Python 2 on my system.

[prokoudine]

The second is better support for input devices. We will have to see what that really means but if it helps with supporting tablets other than Wacom that will be a big plus.

That is really mostly up to GTK

The days of single threaded graphical applications is coming to an end for any one doing serious work.

Completely agreed. Do you know GIMP has quite a few things with async implementation? Like loading fonts, painting...

[Alexmitter]

As we likely will have some "Why took it so long" people. Always keep in mind that GIMP is literally the oldest GTK app as GTK was extracted out of GIMP, Gimp in version 2 still heavily used GTK1 style things that were still allowed in GTK2 but not at all in GTK3 as well as a lot of direct X11 calls. That all had to be ported to their modern back-end independent GTK3 equivalent.

Now that the GTK3 port is nearly done and me having high hopes that its creators took care to not use things that GTK3 sees as allowed but discouraged, a GTK4 port should not be that big of a deal.

[pmorph]

Great, I guess. Though as far as visuals end user functionality goes, I don't remember ever wanting anything beyond what already GTK1.x did.

[MadeUpName]

There are some things in here that are big for me. The first is better support for high pixel density displays. The second is better support for input devices. We will have to see what that really means but if it helps with supporting tablets other than Wacom that will be a big plus.

There is a great way to get a program that looks and works just like Photoshop: buy the fucking Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

While I agree that just recreating some thing that already exists doesn't help any one. The days of single threaded graphical applications is coming to an end for any one doing serious work.

[mppix]

Great. When do we get GTK4 support?

[prokoudine]

They should copy Photoshop...

There is a great way to get a program that looks and works just like Photoshop: buy the fucking Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

[cypx]

it's not clear how to Install from flathub beta, so if you ask:

flatpak remote-add flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
flatpak install gimp
# choose to install from flathub-beta

and to run (if you already have stable version installed)

flatpak run --branch=beta org.gimp.GIMP