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GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!
gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-…
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!
Welcome to GIMP 3.0!
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Koko San
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Vincent Tunru
in reply to GIMP • • •Just a note that you linked to what I assume is the testing site :) You probably meant gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.…
Congrats on the release!
GIMP - GIMP 3.0 Release Notes
www.gimp.orgGIMP
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in reply to jonathankoren™ • • •jonathankoren™
in reply to miniBill (Leonardo) • • •FYI: “Fuck you” uses less chars, and means the same thing. HTH!
sfba.social/@jonathankoren/114…
jonathankoren™ (@jonathankoren@sfba.social)
SFBA.socialGIMP
in reply to jonathankoren™ • • •@jonathankoren Please keep it civil - thank you.
GIMP is produced by volunteers. If you want specific features, yes, please file issues. If you want to be on the design team join the design team. But without code being written by volunteers, there won’t be changes. Vague suggestions like “modern editing tools” are hard to implement.
Fossman
in reply to GIMP • • •I really think you should sell the software binaries like #Ardour does. Not less than US $100. Free updates until next major version.
Many human beings will always be ungrateful for what they are given for free without payment.
GIMP
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in reply to Fossman • • •Scott Trakker
in reply to jonathankoren™ • • •They spent thousands of hours on this release and this is were you come up with? Your comment is very disrespectful. Please visit some other parts of the internet.
Hisham
in reply to GIMP • • •Congratulations to the team for all the hard work!!
Never mind the trolls and keep going!!
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in reply to GIMP • • •E23
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Sven Geggus
in reply to scy • • •supertobi
in reply to Sven Geggus • • •@giggls @scy
The word hast more then one meaning:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Toastface
in reply to supertobi • • •@supertobi @giggls @scy
So does another very offensive word for gay people starting with F. Doesn't make it ok.
Erik Play2Learn
in reply to Toastface • • •GIMP
in reply to Erik Play2Learn • • •@fallbackerik @Toastface @supertobi @giggls @scy and also change the plug-in API, rewrite 10,000+ plug-ins and scripts, courses, documentation, 70+ language translations, find hosting for > 100K downloads/day...
Changing the name is a possibility for the future; for now we have what we have. A hostile fork is always possible, but you do need a team of developers.
Toastface
in reply to GIMP • • •@fallbackerik @supertobi @giggls @scy
I understand the scope of work and don't expect miracles. Perhaps rewording your FAQ would make it seem a little less hostile to the idea that the name might be inappropriate.
FeralRobots
in reply to GIMP • • •"Rewrite 10,000+ plug-ins & scripts" is disingenuous, to start with.
Nobody anywhere is asking you to make those changes right away - & indeed, probably most people wouldn't even perceive the most difficult changes.
Admit it: You just don't want to change it.
GIMP
in reply to FeralRobots • • •moanos
in reply to GIMP • • •Rolf Steinort (314.8 ppm)
in reply to moanos • • •FeralRobots
in reply to Rolf Steinort (314.8 ppm) • • •Oh yes let's definitely spend lots & lots of time worrying about hypotheticals.
Aleksandr Prokudin
in reply to FeralRobots • • •Silly Bird
in reply to GIMP • • •just chiming in to share my support for this idea! A name change is a powerful way to let people know that you are taking a new approach to things. I can see a lot of people talking about this maybe for something like a 4.0 release (I know, we just got 3.0, but I'm thinking several years out).
Great seeing fresh energy behind this project!
deutrino
in reply to GIMP • • •GIMP
in reply to deutrino • • •deutrino
in reply to GIMP • • •new release just happened!
github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/…
Release PhotoGIMP 3 · Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
GitHubPeter
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in reply to Jay Grant 🏳️⚧️ • • •supertobi
in reply to Benjamin • • •@piratenpanda @mxjaygrant
The discussion about the name is very old. It is even in the FAQ:
gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-d…
And there was a fork, Glimpse, but they could not find enough contributors:
news.itsfoss.com/glimpse-gimp-…
And that's how open source works. If no one cares, nothing will change.
GIMP's 'Woke' Fork Glimpse is Getting Discontinued
Ankush Das (It's FOSS News)Benjamin
in reply to supertobi • • •supertobi
in reply to Benjamin • • •Remember, renaming costs money and is a lot of work that the team might prefer to invest in the product.
Should gimp be renamed? Probably.
Do I want to take on the work and the costs? Definitely not.
Tegan
in reply to supertobi • • •CmykStudent
in reply to Tegan • • •@rawrmonstar @supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant For what it's worth, this issue was discussed during a team meet-up in the last few years: developer.gimp.org/conferences…
It's one of the many things that developers want to come back to, after we recover from the 3.0 release.
GIMP Developer - Wilber Week 2023: Amsterdam, Netherland
developer.gimp.orgMatěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦
in reply to GIMP • • •It is freezing in hell! Congratulations!!!
build.opensuse.org/request/sho…
#openSUSE
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in reply to GIMP • • •@GIMP
joene 🏴🍉
in reply to GIMP • • •jack
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in reply to GIMP • • •Scott Trakker
in reply to GIMP • • •You now deserve a vacation!
Donated some money for that!
GIMP
in reply to Scott Trakker • • •GTK
in reply to GIMP • • •Kevin Russell
in reply to GIMP • • •Congratulations a big achievement, an amazing program. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
MegatronicThronBanks
in reply to GIMP • • •I have mixed feelings about this as I know it will 1. probably be as clunky to use as its predecessors, 2. probably not have backward compatibility including breaking plugins.
But as there is no FOSS alternative to GIMP with the breadth of functionality of it, that I'm aware of, we just have to suck it up.
Congratulations, I guess?
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐
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in reply to GIMP • • •Much Love to #GIMP.
Used it to create all of my channel's hundreds of video thumbnail / cover graphics. 🎨
Carl
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in reply to GIMP • • •LET'S GOOOO. Can't wait to try it!
Cloud68.co
in reply to GIMP • • •Fabio Manganiello
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in reply to Fabio Manganiello • • •Toastface
in reply to GIMP • • •"we feel that in the long run, sterilization of language will do more harm than good."
Oof, yeah, not installing this every again.
Rodolfo Gigante
in reply to GIMP • • •Rodolfo Gigante
in reply to GIMP • • •Installation bug, duplicated text in buttons
GIMP
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in reply to GIMP • • •j'ai écouté 📢👂
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in reply to GIMP • • •congrats
but... alt texttttttt 😩 come on guys
GIMP
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in reply to GIMP • • •of course
thank you for the fantastic free software 🤩
Glyph
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in reply to GIMP • • •Congratulations! You people are fantastic, thank you. 👏 🤩
Also ignore the confused people that think this – of all moments – is the right time and place to address questionable naming decisions.
Thom
in reply to GIMP • • •Hiker
in reply to Thom • • •Thom
in reply to Hiker • • •GIMP
in reply to Thom • • •You should ask Linux Mint about it. 😄
Nora Reed
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in reply to GIMP • • •Donnie Darko
in reply to GIMP • • •I never knew you cared. This is not a joke? Better get the gimp.
I use Linux because it generally does what I do every day. There are a few ok programs out there like gimp, blender, and kdenlive. I mean they get the job done mostly without me having to reboot. Really I had a lot of pirate software and I could not open the gateway for them to report home in Windows is what brought me to Linux. (sorry I thought I was responding to Tom Ellard aka Lard Motel)
Ethan Black
in reply to GIMP • • •Thank you for all the hard work! I've been using GIMP for a while.
(Sorry about all the angry replies, I wish they'd be civil about how they disagree! Change the "offensive" name if you want, but keep up the good work with the actual software! ❤)
Lorenzo Gabriele
in reply to GIMP • • •GIMP
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in reply to GIMP • • •OldCoder
in reply to GIMP • • •I've built GIMP-3 from source. It's nice. My #Linux distro will keep GIMP-2 and feature GIMP-3 as well. I'll comment that, for me, two features are missing from GIMP-3:
SVG support requires Rust now. Rust is a huge dependency to need to add just to get SVG. Additionally, Rust isn't available for some distros and/or architectures. So, for me, GIMP-3 will need to omit SVG. I think that some other distros will make the same decision.
The Create Logo command is gone as well.
Comment to @GIMP : It shouldn't be difficult for "file-svg.c" to support the 'C' version of librsvg. In fact, the code is already there in an "#else" block. It looks like relatively minor changes are needed. However, I haven't been able to make it work yet.
On the other hand, Resynthesizer and #GMIC both build and work. The base GIMP-3 filter
... Show more...I've built GIMP-3 from source. It's nice. My #Linux distro will keep GIMP-2 and feature GIMP-3 as well. I'll comment that, for me, two features are missing from GIMP-3:
SVG support requires Rust now. Rust is a huge dependency to need to add just to get SVG. Additionally, Rust isn't available for some distros and/or architectures. So, for me, GIMP-3 will need to omit SVG. I think that some other distros will make the same decision.
The Create Logo command is gone as well.
Comment to @GIMP : It shouldn't be difficult for "file-svg.c" to support the 'C' version of librsvg. In fact, the code is already there in an "#else" block. It looks like relatively minor changes are needed. However, I haven't been able to make it work yet.
On the other hand, Resynthesizer and #GMIC both build and work. The base GIMP-3 filters plus those two add-ons are most of what I need.
Note to distro admins: To build Resynthesizer for GIMP-3 from source, you presently need to use the "resynthesizer3" git branch.
@gmic may be pleased to hear that GIMP 3.0.2 and GMIC 3.5.3 are confirmed to be simpatico. See the attached screenshot.
Note: The distro and desktop used here are my own 30-year-old project, Laclin. I'm as fond of it as the GIMP and GMIC teams are of their projects.
#FOSS #graphics
GIMP
in reply to OldCoder • • •OldCoder
in reply to GIMP • • •GIMP
in reply to OldCoder • • •@oldcoder @gmic yes, please feel free to file an issue with a test case.
For the old logo scripts (which probably no longer work), you can try tools / gegl filter, and choose GEGL Styles or Filters / Generic / Text styles (same thing) will get you a long way.
OldCoder
in reply to OldCoder • • •#gmic 3.6.0 is out. I thought I'd mention that the G'MIC speech bubble feature, which is new in 3.6.0, is confirmed to work in both #GIMP 2.10 and 3.0. This opens up new options for #webcomics creators.
Illustration: Use of G'MIC 3.6.0 speech bubble in GIMP 2.10.
Jacob Urlich 🌍
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