Ubuntu 23.10 Aiming To Ship A GIMP 3.0 Snapshot

[Estranged1906]

The point with Gimp 3.0 is that it uses GTK3 where 2.x uses GTK2. Ubuntu 24.04 will have support up to 2029, upstream support for GTK2 is gone by then.

How long will GTK3 be supported?

[Vistaus]

Is Krita now superior to Gimp?

It already was.

[JGC_]

How long will GTK3 be supported?

Probably for a few years. Development takes place with gtk4, gtk3 is bugfix only. Porting gtk3 to gtk4 is easier than 2->3.

Gtk2 is already EOL upstream. Git receives some backported fixes now and then, but no releases have been made for 2 years now.

[ClosedSource]

This is somewhat irresponsible. You don't push beta software in stable OS releases because of the better ui toolkit.

[Siuoq]

This is somewhat irresponsible. You don't push beta software in stable OS releases because of the better ui toolkit.

If someone complains about a bug, you can just tell them to update it :shrug:

[evasb]

So Canonical is admitting that non-LTS releases are just glorified betas? Good to know.