GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule
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The team is targeting May 2024, but it's going to be tough, and here is why

Their goal is to release for may 24.

  • allywilson@sopuli.xyz
    11·
    1 year ago

    with focus shifted towards completing the port to GTK3

    Is that a typo? I would have thought most software was shifting to GTK4 now?

    • Matth78@lemmy.worldOP
      14·
      1 year ago

      Sadly, I don’t think so. Searching about that I found out they switched to GTK3 interface being default just before GTK4 was released… And making the switch from GTK2 took a long time.

  • indigomirage@lemmy.ca
    61·
    1 year ago

    Last time I used gimp was in the late 90s I think. I gather it’s pretty much the same as when I last tried…?

    I’ve found Krita to be pretty good (though I can load slowly on slow machines).

      • ISOmorph@feddit.de
        7·
        1 year ago

        It is powerful, but usability is as shit as it always has been. Except for specific use cases Krita is the way to go nowadays. Even if it’s focussed on digital painting, it has almost everything you need for digital editing as well, with a much more user friendly UX.

        • Virkkunen@kbin.social
          7·
          1 year ago

          I think the main problem with GIMP is that it was made by developers with developers in mind, completely ignoring how digital artists work. Like it or not, everybody has to take pages from Photoshop (and co.) like how Affinity and Krita are doing, otherwise there’s really no incentive to completely change your workflow.

          • MudMan@kbin.social
            8·
            1 year ago

            So much. Yes. How do we all agree on this and yet it hasn’t sunk in after twenty five years?

            I mean, Blender got it. Be like Blender.

            Gimp never even needed to be as robust as Photoshop. All anybody needs is a OSS alternative to casually touch up a photo every now and then if you aren’t forced by life to be one of Adobe’s hostages. Just give me a vaguely Photoshop-like thing with a semi-competent context aware filter that isn’t physically painful to use. Kryta and others will pick up the slack for all the painting stuff.

          • BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
            5·
            1 year ago

            Yeah the GUI is horrible with Gimp but it is very powerful software. I’m used to it’s idiosyncrasities but it really needs a GUI refresh. It’s powerful software held back from it’s full potential.

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        I admit for the very limited things I do and only occasionally I use Paint.net

        Unfortunately, it’s not available on Linux

        Still in my mind Gimp is much more powerful?

        Yes it is, but it’s also much more complicated. I never fully understood GIMP, I prefer simpler options like Paint.net.

  • mtchristo@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    I was hyped for it coming before the end of this year. Anyways its great the project isn’t dead