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?!
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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You're welcome - I hope you have a good time with it!
If you have pasted an image but not yet made any selections on it then I would have thought that there is no selection to crop to yet. What are you trying to crop?
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Only if you press ctrl-v while having no canvas open. But, if you have a canvas open already, and the canvas is bigger than the image is, you'd want to crop to selection which would get rid of all the extra canvas around the actual image.
Although, looking back at Edit 1, yeah I should've been more specific. That's on me. Apologies, I have rephrased. :)
Edit 1:
Also, I realize I got a little heated with Edit 1 & 2. I do apologize if I came across as rude. Again, I have very little but respect for the people who work on this, and believe in the project. Unfortunately, it does have quite a ways to go; but hopefully with the work that has been with the 3.0 backend overhaul those other things can come sooner than what has come before. :)
Ah OK, I understand. Yes, it sounds like it would make sense for GIMP to offer the option to immediately crop in that case.
If it's a helpful alternative, you can also drag an image from another application onto the GIMP logo above the toolbox to open it as a new file, rather than pasting it onto one which is already open. I often do this when I want to open something from my web browser :)