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GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (4 children)

port from GTK2 to GTK3

Migrating from an already rooten toolkit to a toolkit that is dead since a few years.

Nice.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They have been migrating to GTK3 since before GTK4 was out.

I am sure they will stay behind but future porting should be easier.

That said, non-GNOME GTK apps seem to be considering sticking with GTK3 anyway ( to avoid libadwaita ).

https://linuxmint-developer-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/xapps.html

[–] pastermil 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not as dead as you think, but yeah...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Yeah ... I just hope they're now being able to decouple the UI and the core and make it easier to migrate to more recent UI toolkits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gimp has been falling behind more and more. Back when 2.0 came out it wasn't as bad yet, but it got worse as years went on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Even better when we remind ourselves that GTK means "Gimp ToolKit" :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It’s almost like the whole customized apps to fit into the GTK framework concept creates too much added work and needs to be rethought.

I don’t understand why someone should choose any GTK variant when they’ll have to refactor and rewrite their application every few years.