GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release

[binarybanana]

Green Is My Pepper

[rabcor]

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.

Gimp is never the right tool because everything gimp can do krita can do better...

[Anux]

Gimp is never the right tool because everything gimp can do krita can do better...

Well I'm pressing X to doubt here. Scripting/GEGL all the filters, Krita has a lot less functionality.

[You-]

GTK4 is a pain in the ass to port menu code over to. I've been developing my applications for GTK3 and GTK4 and a bunch of my apps I haven't figured out howto handle menus so the UI style is consistent with MATE. I'm not interested in hamburger menus and GNOME 4 at all.

https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/class.PopoverMenuBar

Whats missing?

[Aeder]

I don't think GIMP has any full-time developers, AFAIU they all just do what they can in their spare time. If they got some serious funding like Blender, I guarantee you development would speed up drastically.

Blender got its funding by listening and focusing on sets of features that were needed for their users' use cases.

Every time someone wondered why a feature that Photoshop had for years was not in GIMP, people would say things like "GIMP is not trying to be Photoshop". And apparently they have 1.3M in donations sitting idle since 2014 because they can't work out how to manage the money.

I think it is a project management issue that money won't solve.