GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release

[Slartifartblast]

I expect the Milky Way and Andromeda to collide (or maybe not according to recent research) before Gimp 3.0 arrives, but thanks for trying folks.

[rabcor]

That's not the point. They simply don't want to add full time developers even if that was possible. As I said, it's not about not having resources but rather about lack of any interest in doing it. And I think it's bad for Gimp's users becasue taking a decade to implement this feature is insane.

It's fine, all the sane Gimp users are now Krita users instead.

[0badc0de]

GTK4 is Vulkan accelerated and therefore faster.

Accelerating a basically static UI makes much less sense to me than accelerating the actual gfx-related computations.
The move to gtk4 has been driven by some other reasoning, like modernization.
IMHO.

[Anux]

GTK4 is Vulkan accelerated and therefore faster.

Well I never had the feeling the Gimp UI was slow in any way and I use it on an 12 year old mobile CPU.

[0badc0de]

Who will arrive faster? Gimp 3 or Half Life 3?

Half GIMP 3!

[Malsabku]

I'm not sure why so many are eager to get GTK 4, is there something that would benefit Gimp? The last GTK 3 LTS release is from last year and will be supported at least till GTK 5 comes out.

GTK4 is Vulkan accelerated and therefore faster.

[Malsabku]

Perhaps but they have rewritten a lot of the old code interfacing with the UI and old custom widgets to use standard GTK stuff. Updating to new GTK versions should be a whole lot easier moving forward.

Upgrading from GTK3 from GTK4 seems not easy in reality.

All major DEs (Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, Budgie, Unity) are stuck at GTK3. They haven't even started to touch GTK4. Even several GNOME core apps are still based on GTK3. More developers are leaving GTK instead of switching to GTK4 (PopOS/Cosmic OS, Budgie, Ubuntu). Next year GTK5 will be released and it will be a GNOME-only show.

[Anux]

I'm not sure why so many are eager to get GTK 4, is there something that would benefit Gimp? The last GTK 3 LTS release is from last year and will be supported at least till GTK 5 comes out.

Yes, that was part of it. I.e. I understand as "we don't need do things faster (i.e. have more developers) due to being popular / in demand from users to iterate faster, we are good moving as slow as we do". I think the other comment was about donated money sitting somewhere and not being used for actual development.

Well that quote above just describes non commercial free software development, you need to be really fit in mental gymnastics to read this as "we don't want sponsors".
And if it bothers you, collect money and pay a dev to work on GIMP.

[hyperchaotic]

Nice, then GIMP 4 development will start and get released when GTK 6 is released

Perhaps but they have rewritten a lot of the old code interfacing with the UI and old custom widgets to use standard GTK stuff. Updating to new GTK versions should be a whole lot easier moving forward.

[shmerl]

And if that post is what triggered you then IMHO that post does not at all mean what you think it does. If it was any other comment instead that I somehow missed to read get the significance of, then please link it directly or quote it so we can at least have some form of idea where this is coming from.

Yes, that was part of it. I.e. I understand as "we don't need do things faster (i.e. have more developers) due to being popular / in demand from users to iterate faster, we are good moving as slow as we do". I think the other comment was about donated money sitting somewhere and not being used for actual development.