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Is GIMP 3.0 about to come out? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago by Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Just had a look at the GIMP 3.0 milestones page and saw this.

Am I missing anything or is GIMP 3.0 actually going to be released soon?!

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 6 days ago (14 children)

This is good news. There are a lot of great FOSS alternatives on Linux, but raster editing is one of the last few blind spots, I've found.

Krita is designed more for painting,
MyPaint also seems designed more for digital artwork (and, perhaps just in my experience, but it also seemed rather unstable and kept crashing)
KolourPaint is very barebones (seems to be much more a replacement to MS Paint than anything else, so can't really blame it for that)
Inkscape is a vector editor. 'Nuff said.
Pinta is the closest to Paint.\NET you're gonna get on Linux, except it's based on before the latter went closed-source (bastard...) and as such it's not as feature-complete as Paint.\NET is.

GIMP, meanwhile, doesn't even have nondestructive editing and also can't draw basic shapes (like squares, cylinders, etc.), can't seemingly rotate layers without opening the [floating RMB menu] > Layer > Transform > Arbitrary Rotation dialog window, and good GOD the floating menus can go fuck themselves. How I hate the floating menus. Did I mention the floating menus suck? Not sure if I mentioned that.

Anyway, this switch to 3.0 is really needed and I'm genuinely excited to see the changes it brings, to the UI and the UX in particular.

Just a shame that they're switching over to GTK3 when most other developers seem to be transitioning to GTK4.

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Improvements to the UI & lossless editing are nice, 20 years too late, but nice. Outside of that we are still 19 years behind PS, feature parity is impossible, anywhere near the same productivity is impossible :/

Feels like the foss community is a bit unlucky with gimp, there are so many truly great productivity tools outside of this one area.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Exactly.

And even with the stuff it can do takes 10x longer to do than with most other raster editing software because the UI and UX is so darn convoluted. Like, seriously, I want to like GIMP, but frankly I and most people in fact ain't gonna spend 10 minutes trying to figure out how to rotate a layer. Lol.

Frankly, at this point, I just wish Paint.\NET was able to be run on Linux, but I believe it still uses some Windows-specific components—can't remember what they are—that can't quite yet be replicated properly using Mono. (Might be some Windows-specific DLLs? Idk.)

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