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

[finalzone]

Which is why it would be such a beautiful indictment of the way the GNOME people are shepherding it if they moved to Qt.

Let remind that GNOME was born because of licensing issue to KDE/Qt and the rest is history. We are in a state when both GTK and Qt need each other to improve the current FOSS ecosyste. In context of the article, GIMP using GTK is a logical choice as more developments increased (a draft for using GTK4 post GIMP 3 is already set).

[ssokolow]

Let remind that GNOME was born because of licensing issue to KDE/Qt and the rest is history. We are in a state when both GTK and Qt need each other to improve the current FOSS ecosyste. In context of the article, GIMP using GTK is a logical choice as more developments increased (a draft for using GTK4 post GIMP 3 is already set).

Qt/X11 became "GPL plus a contract that it gets BSD'd so the KDE Free Qt Foundation can take over if the current rightsholders decide to stop releasing the source for more than 12 months" with Qt 2.2 in 2000 and Qt 4.0 made all platforms GPL in 2005. Then, in 2009, LGPL was added as an option.

...and if support for non-Linux platforms is a concern, Qt is now better than GTK on that front, unlike with Qt 2.2 only being GPLed on X11.

The rest is history.

[jacob]

Don't be confused by the naming of the releases - Episode 1 and 2 IS the third part. Google it

Wasn't there supposed to be an Episode 3 to conclude the story rather than leave us with a stupid cliffhanger?

[hsci]

Poor developers. Hope they're well again
Finally display scaling, proper color picking and screenshots and Wayland support.

But when will Gimp ship with Gtk4? I expected something between 2030 and 2040
PS: I think it could maybe go faster then we think because Gtk3 required cleanups which they will benefit from?

[wooptoo]

pacman -Qi gtk2
…
Required By : gimp

And with that the era of GTK2 ends.

[hsci]

Yep. The other are legacy projects. Except:

https://archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/steam-native-runtime/

It requires gtk2? I wonder why. The actual steam package "without native" depends on gdk-pixbuf2 and zenity, which use on Gtk4. I guess some parts within Steam use still gtk2 and it ships with it integrated. I guess in not actively developed closed-source projects we will always see such old things.

[Danielsan]

Long awaited? was anyone actually still waiting for this?

I do. People that use Gimp are waiting for version 3.

[George99]

pacman -Qi gtk2
…
Required By : gimp

And with that the era of GTK2 ends.

asunder still requires gtk2 and I still need to convert CDs to mp3 files.

[ssokolow]

asunder still requires gtk2 and I still need to convert CDs to mp3 files.

You'll get better results with https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

It's the closest Linux equivalent to Exact Audio Copy.

...or running Exact Audio Copy in Wine if you need to work around Whipper not liking it when Track 1 is data, for that matter.