GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release

[0badc0de]

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

Half GIMP 3!

[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]

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.

[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.

[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.

[Anux]

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

Not sure what this has got to do with sanity? One should use the right tool for their job and that might be krita or gimp depending on what you want to do.

[royce]

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.

What do you mean by "they"? And who's going to pay for full-time developer salaries? Do you think there's some sort of magical GIMP company that owns a magic money tree and chooses to spend their resources on something else?

[RomanAverin]

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

I don't think our contemporaries will live to see this event. 🤭

[diegodamohill]

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

You joke, but between GIMP 2.9 and 3.0 Valve literally made a Half Life game

[MrCooper]

I'm not sure why so many are eager to get GTK 4, is there something that would benefit Gimp?

Support for higher-precision pixel formats and colour management.