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How far away is GIMP 3 from GIMP 4? (www.gimp.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I tried the Flatpak development release of GIMP 3 and there are already big problems with UI consistency.

For example the forced theming makes it unusable on KDE, this issue describes the too big UI very well and in general it seems like it doesnt make sense to have these huge UI elements on a compact App like GIMP.

Meanwhile apps like Inkscape are on GTK4 afaik, and GTK stands for GIMP ToolKit (or GNU ToolKit?). So its kinda ironic they are upgrading to GTK3 just now.

It seems they are also just doing some cleanup in the code, so I wonder how big the step to GTK4 would be?

And it problems like too large UI elements or theming problems could be fixed.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who cares? I am fine with the way it is, I am just going to be annoyed with the UI being updated anyways. I am still annoyed by the thunderbird update cause now dark reader takes a second to give me dark mode emails.

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

Dark reader works? I am using dark background light text and that doesnt work, also some addons are not yet in the Thunderbird store. I can recommend ublock origin with custom *.zip *.mov filters, essential

Thunderbird got better, even though advanced filters are now gone? Not sure when.

But modern Toolkits are important especially for Wayland support

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok I admit I never thought about using ublock on thunderbird but it sounds interesting, could you explain what advantages it and those filters give? As far as I know TB already blocks some elements within emails for security and privacy purposes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've set Thunderbird to only use simple html without loading of resources. That should take care of all tracking and exploits, so I don't think ublock is necessary unless loading images etc. is important.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes Adblocking is often not needed and may slow down your TB. But people putting filenames with *.mov and *.zip in them would mean you click them and actually open URLs, as these are now registered TLDs. A very stupid idea of Google