The team is targeting May 2024, but it's going to be tough, and here is why
  • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    It’s kinda wild that GTK’s grandpappy is now the last thing to get updated to the current GTK.

  • Tyler K. Nothing@startrek.websiteEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I don’t need any of the advanced tools, I just want a cleaner interface for the tools that already exist. The only thing I’m able to do is make header pics for my posts. The 2.x UI is really, really old now. The time for a refresh was a few years back, but I do understand the limitations of a small team. Like others have said, I’ll likely run both and migrate to 3.x when it’s stable. Though, I do like the idea of non-destructive editing :)

  • Bloody Harry@feddit.de
    1·
    10 months ago

    wait, what? I’ve had a GIMP 2.x for at least 15 years now. they can’t just… increase the number?? it’s part of the program’s name now

        • aard@kyu.de
          2·
          10 months ago

          I guess we can give GIMP a pass to be a bit slower in migrating to new versions of the _G_IMP _T_ool_K_it than others…

        • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
          0·
          10 months ago

          It makes a lot of sense to use GTK4, but I guess they wanted to respect the chronological order for the GUI library?

          • winety@communick.news
            2·
            10 months ago

            The GTK3 port has been in the making for a very long time. Long before anyone even mentioned GTK4. Porting an application to a different GUI toolkit is a lot of work.

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
    0·
    10 months ago

    I realize that the major point of GIMP 3 is the port to GTK3. That said, I feel like colour spaces are what people have been waiting for and probably the most significant deficiency that keeps GIMP from being treated as a professional tool.

    If they are really this close, why not set the GIMP 3 release date for when colour management is ready?

    Non-destructive editing will be huge as well. GIMP 3 is really going to be a crazy leap forward. It is going to be amazing to finally get access to all this work that has been walled off for decades.

    The bug situation sounds terrible. Honestly though, they should just get 3 out and then make bug fixing the number one job until it gets into better shape.

    Not only is it a small team but right now there are basically two different projects ( 2 and 3 ). With only one code base, perhaps the pace of progress can improve.

    Hopefully the move to GTK4 is easier.

    • Vincent@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      So you’re saying: don’t release the GTK 3 port until colour spaces are also complete? Why not give people what’s ready, and then when colour spaces are ready, cut another release? No need to make people wait who don’t need colour spaces.

      (Additionally, it’s easier to verify that bugs reported before the release of colour spaces are more likely to be related to the GTK3 port.)