They’ve been completely dropping the ball for years. I used to donate regularly but have completely given up on this project. It’s a farce at this point.
Thankfully I only have simple needs so Krita suffices and I don’t have to deal with the never-improving UX nightmare and never-releasing changes.
Yeah, I’m salty. It’s just that GIMP was a shining star of FOSS and it’s just been slowly rotting from inaction.
GIMP was one of the first open-source software I’ve come across in my pre-teens, the other ones being LMMS and Audacity, so it has a place in my heart.
They’ve been completely dropping the ball for years. I used to donate regularly but have completely given up on this project. It’s a farce at this point.
Liberapay shows the number of donors has almost doubled in the last few months (look at “view income history”), so i hope it is an indication that they made good changes to the project management and the future will be better.
That’s good to hear, and I really would love for things to get sorted out. Gimp 3.x has many improvements for sure but there’s a long way to go and actually releasing these improvements is necessary…
If gimp can become another blender that would be incredible.
The GTK3 port is done, and now they need to finalize the new extension API and improve their color space support (particularly CMYK). It would be nice if Wayland had a color management protocol extension standardized by then, but I don’t think it’s a blocker.
In X11 it’s server side, and in gnome wayland it’s of course client side, but they look exactly the same as the SSD ones. I doubt they’ll change that between the current beta and the 3.x release.
Waiting for GIMP v3 to come out. They’re still in v2.99 beta for reasons I’m unaware of.
They’ve been completely dropping the ball for years. I used to donate regularly but have completely given up on this project. It’s a farce at this point.
Thankfully I only have simple needs so Krita suffices and I don’t have to deal with the never-improving UX nightmare and never-releasing changes.
Yeah, I’m salty. It’s just that GIMP was a shining star of FOSS and it’s just been slowly rotting from inaction.
GIMP was one of the first open-source software I’ve come across in my pre-teens, the other ones being LMMS and Audacity, so it has a place in my heart.
Liberapay shows the number of donors has almost doubled in the last few months (look at “view income history”), so i hope it is an indication that they made good changes to the project management and the future will be better.
Is it because they’re improving, or is it because Adobe keeps pissing people off and donating to GIMP is cheaper than a Photoshop sub?
I don’t actually have any opinion on gimp one way or another, it does what I need it to do.
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That’s good to hear, and I really would love for things to get sorted out. Gimp 3.x has many improvements for sure but there’s a long way to go and actually releasing these improvements is necessary…
If gimp can become another blender that would be incredible.
GIMP really needs its Blender moment.
The reasons are made clear on their roadmap.
The GTK3 port is done, and now they need to finalize the new extension API and improve their color space support (particularly CMYK). It would be nice if Wayland had a color management protocol extension standardized by then, but I don’t think it’s a blocker.
Are they still using GTK2/Python 2?
I’ve switched to Gimp 2.99 with GTK3 from Debian Experimental.
Seems stable and bug-free (if a little sluggish) so far.
Edit: Just checked their site. Quote from the release notes of the first 2.99.x release:
That was 3 years ago.
Yes. GIMP 3 is supposed to come out with GTK3, not sure about the Python3 switch. Honestly, they should have gone for Lua.
I just hope they don’t use CSDs and let the window manager fully manage the windows.
That’ll be an option you can toggle.
I think they should give the same freedom as we are granted in Tilix. I just love that app.
In X11 it’s server side, and in gnome wayland it’s of course client side, but they look exactly the same as the SSD ones. I doubt they’ll change that between the current beta and the 3.x release.
Gimp 3 uses python 3 as well.