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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] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe Inkscape is still working towards GTK4, but yes they are much farther ahead, to be expected when there are more developers active, after all.

GTK has long outgrown GIMP, it's much more general purpose now, though the acronym remains. Who knows, maybe it'll be renamed to GTK Toolkit in full MIT hacker style one day

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's the GNOME ToolKit now