Let's see... Can we draw circles in a convenient manner yet?
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I've used Gimp for as long as I can remember, it's one of those tools I always have installed in my workstation. It's quirky, but I love it anyway.
Glad to see 3.0 released. Valve, are you paying attention? Those is how it's done.
Gimp 2.0 was released eight months before Half Life 2.
So you're telling me....
Half Life 3 confirmed!
8 more months until we got HL3!
I finished HL2 E2 a few weeks ago for the first time and I’m still waiting for the thrilling conclusion.
So you're implying we can expect Half-Life 3 for Christmas?
gimp 3 and proper hdr in the same year. never would have guessed it would be so contemporaneous
Wayland is nearly done playing catchup, work should dramatically accelerate, the great transition is finally almost over.
All that's left to get wayland to feature parity with x at this point is an accessibility protocol (which should also allow xdotool stuff to work), gnome is working on one. Once that's done and released, a bunch of devs will be freed up to work on new stuff.
If we're being nitpicky there's also these two:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/216
which will add a proper protocol for global shortcuts (right now the compositors that have implemented it have implemented it with a hack, instead of a proper protocol, extremely minor since pretty much everyone has already functionally figured this out)
and the window positioning protocol:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/18
the last few years of linux development have essentially been defined by technical debt, we're finally about to shake off those shackles.
2025 is finally the year of the Linux desktop!
Aside from the wayland transition finishing, which I posted about above, there's also anticheat being figured out.
Then there will be no compelling reasons for normal people not to use linux, unless you have extremely niche software that only works on windows.
It's happening!
gtk2 is gone 🦀🦀🦀
RUST IS INEVITABLE 🦀🦀🦀
Gimp devs will have to port it to Gtk 4 before rewriting it in Rust, because Rust Gtk 3 bindings are now obsolete lol.
Does it support CMYK now?
You can import and export to CMYK but, internally, it is still sRGB.
Whow. I totally missed that I can export to CMYK.
So I don't want to imagine what happens to black pixels this way
From the post: "This update also lays the groundwork for future CMYK and LAB image color modes."
Isn't the problem that it's blocked by a number of patents, or something like that?
Afaik still only export profiles
Could anybody in short explain, what I have to understand from "it's tagged"?
The commit shows that there was a longer with 3.0.0 tag before and now its just 3.0.0
What does that tell us? :D
Could anybody in short explain, what I have to understand from “it’s tagged”?
Git is the most popular version control system, which lets developers track changes to software source code. A "tag" applies a name (or version number) to a specific point in the history.
The commit shows that there was a longer with 3.0.0 tag before and now its just 3.0.0
The link goes to a commit which is tagged GIMP_3_0_0, and shows the change made in this commit. This commit happens to change the version line in a file called meson.build - this file configures Meson, which is used to build GIMP. The version is being changed from 3.0.0-RC3+git to 3.0.0. The string "RC3" in the previous version number is short for "release candidate 3", and "git" here means that there were additional changes since "release candidate 3" was released.
What does that tell us? :D
So far the news and downloads pages still haven't been updated, but the version being changed to 3.0.0 and this commit being tagged tells us that GIMP 3.0.0 is about to be released: official binaries and an announcement about it can be expected to appear very soon.
The tag means no more changes will be included in 3.0.0; if some show-stopping bug were discovered now, the version number would be incremented to 3.0.1 rather than to include a fix in 3.0.0. (Technically, a tag can be updated/replaced, but by convention it is not.)
In case anyone is curious, here's the steps missing to get an official release.
All checked! ✅
let's f*cking gooooooo!!!
Thanks for the write up!! :)
So far the news and downloads pages still haven’t been updated
If I can’t download it, and the site says the latest version is 2.10.38, is it really released?
as i said, it "is about to be released".
or, one could also say that the the 3.0.0 source code has been released, but the official binaries haven't been yet :)
edit: i see https://flathub.org/apps/org.gimp.GIMP has 3.0.0 now, and from https://testing.gimp.org/downloads/ i see that https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v3.0/linux/GIMP-3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage is also there. presumably https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ will be updated very soon.
TL;DR: GIMP 3 is out!
It means that 3.0.0 is released. A git tag has also been made. Not sure why a release hasn't been added to GitLab yet, as it has already been 8 hours.
In practice, this means that GIMP version 3.0.0 (actual release, not a release candidate) has been released and can be built.
I havent used it in 15 years and will prob keep that up, used to weirdly love photo editing
After seven years of active development
I wonder where they got this from. The 2.x branch was first released 21 years ago.
7 years of working on the 3.x branch?