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

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think you will find progress accelerate with the release of 3. They did a lot of groundwork and factoring, it's one of the reasons it took so long. But now that the work is done, it will allow for more rapid changes in the future. I'm hoping it will be kinda like Blender 2.8 or Godot 3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh that's good! Thanks for laying that out for me. And, please, don't take what I say as bashing the one guy who's working on this (at least I hear it's only one person). I think for a single person it's incredible what they've gotten to, and I salute them for that. I was merely explaining it from an objective viewpoint. I have very little but respect for the guy behind it all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I generally agree with you, GIMP is way behind the commercial options. And is almost unusable by the lay person and is lacking features a professional needs, which leads it to be almost useless for the majority of people. I use it, but also get frustrated at it every time I do. Let's hope 3 really is an inclection point.

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