The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate

[Vermilion]

The breaking API changes at this point of development cycle is true open source fashion, code-as-you-go instead of having a plan and implementing it.

Oh no! Imagine breaking API during a major version development..

Exactly same disease GTK is suffering. No wonder, it's the Gimp ToolKit.

Now you're just making things up, because GTK deprecates APIs for years before dropping/breaking them early during major release planning.

[eltomito]

How many release candidates did Jesus have?

[Gamer1227]

Are going to get GIMP 3 before GTA 6?

[ssokolow]

Thank goodness.

I'm running the GIMP Flatpak because Canonical disabled the OpenRaster loader in Ubuntu and Snap builds (One of my home-grown creations uses it as a "support only one code path" way to implement "use external editor" for multi-layer stacks of image data... for example, a base image and a 1-bit or grayscale mask layered over it at 50% opacity) and it's annoying that, due to a lack of the GTK2 version of the Breeze theme on Flatpak, my theming choices are three things with unusably low contrast or the "ugly knock-off of my beloved Windows 98SE" fallback theme that I wind up using.

(I've been meaning to look into what environment variables and sandbox exceptions I need to make so I can give GIMP a copy of the GTK2 Breeze from my host Kubuntu.)

[prokoudine]

Maybe you should help them instead of complaining? But you would need to collaborate hands-on on what the matters are, pouring woes don't get any bows.

Help make more breaking changes?

[rabcor]

Long awaited? was anyone actually still waiting for this?

[You-]

Thank goodness.

I'm running the GIMP Flatpak because Canonical disabled the OpenRaster loader in Ubuntu and Snap builds (One of my home-grown creations uses it as a "support only one code path" way to implement "use external editor" for multi-layer stacks of image data... for example, a base image and a 1-bit or grayscale mask layered over it at 50% opacity) and it's annoying that, due to a lack of the GTK2 version of the Breeze theme on Flatpak, my theming choices are three things with unusably low contrast or the "ugly knock-off of my beloved Windows 98SE" fallback theme that I wind up using.

(I've been meaning to look into what environment variables and sandbox exceptions I need to make so I can give GIMP a copy of the GTK2 Breeze from my host Kubuntu.)

Try it from flathub-beta (or gnome nightly), those should be snapshots towards the big 3.0 release.

[ssokolow]

Try it from flathub-beta (or gnome nightly), those should be snapshots towards the big 3.0 release.

Thanks for the idea, but I run an LTS distro and use Inkscape via Flatpak where gtk3-nocsd can't reliably reach its menus because I generally prefer stable software over pretty software. (Flatpak has already allowed me to easily roll back a crashing Inkscape version once.)

I'll stick with the ugly GIMP 2.x (with the added benefit of no buggy GTK 3 context menu drop shadows) until I have time to try to get Breeze for GTK2 exposed to it.

[curfew]

Long awaited? was anyone actually still waiting for this?

Sure, Gimp's a piece of legacy code found on most Linux users' PCs, I would guess. It's also one of the last major pieces in blocking permanently moving to Wayland and ditching Xorg. It's great to finally get an updated version that lets the whole PC evolve by getting rid off legacy clutter like GTK 2 and Xorg packages.

[Lycanthropist]

I am thankful GIMP exists and I am looking forward to the stable 3.0 release. I recently discovered the GIMP Resynthesizer Plugin Suite and it has been really helpful in retouching photos.