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by cmyk_student 5d ago
GTK handles the UI as well as UI events (click, key, scroll, drag, etc). It's very tightly integrated into GIMP itself (the 'G' in GTK use to stand for GIMP, in fact), and has been for decades. GIMP is not new software. :) Th
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
Ah, gotcha - thanks for the heads-up! We're normally more selective with screenshots in actual release notes, but since this was a (even more) informal development update post, I used what photos were available (for instance, the spect
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
It may not be quite as niche as people think: https://fosstodon.org/@GIMP@floss.social/116674728764606215 To your first point, it's difficult to know people's frame of reference online. I've listened t
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
The icon clash is unique to me - I prefer the colorful Legacy icon so I set it to that. It's not the "default" view, it's just a screenshot I grabbed from my own development build. I appreciate the annotated screenshot!
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
Hi! There are actually options for most of those. 1) When you apply a filter, there's a "Merge filter" checkbox. If you check it, filters will be merged down immediately like in 2.10. The setting is remembered, though current
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
The problem is that there's not just one "user". Tons of people have used GIMP for decades and are use to how it works - so changes to be less "user-hostile" can make it hostile to existing users. For instance, we w
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
We didn't go into this in the news post since it was a quick overview, but GIMP uses GEGL for its main color and pixel engine. GEGL has a feature where you can automatically sync data between "buffers" in memory and in file -
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
If you think it's UX related concern, then I'd recommend posting it on the UX tracker first. But even if it's posted in the "wrong place", it'll likely be moved to the right one after it's looked at, if th
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
We added import support for most Photoshop palette formats (ACB, ACO, ASE), so you can use them in GIMP. I don't think we can directly include Pantone palettes in the install because of copyright issues, but if you already have them, t
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
One of our contributors does a lot of upkeep work, and he normally ports UX-related issues from the code tracker to the UX repo. Not 100% perfect, but it helps keep the focus in the right spot.
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
We're working on an extension platform, and once that's up and running we'll probably reach out to PhotoGIMP developers ( https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp ) and see if they want to host it there. Then
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
To be honest, I didn't think about it too hard - I just wrote "a XCF" because it doesn't start with a vowel. I don't think it's worth submitting an edit for, but you're welcome to consider it "an XCF&
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
We didn't go into it in the news post, but one of the big benefits of this new format is that we can sync GeglBuffers (how pixel data is stored) automatically between GIMP and the new file. So you'll get fast auto-saves as you edi
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
That someone is actually the maintainer of GIMP, and the person who is currently developing the new format (unless you mean one of the commenters, not the person who made the initial post).
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
We actually have a design site where we ask for user feedback and UX/UI improvement suggestions: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux/-/work_it... I share this link a lot in the h
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
Thanks! Our tracker is a good place to post the issue report and image: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items (If you can, zip it beforehand, as sometimes metadata that causes problems gets strippe
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
Just my experience, but the relatively few fully AI-generated merge requests we've received that were "big features" were all really bad. For instance, we had one person submit a merge request to convert the entire GIMP cod
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by cmyk_student 1mo ago
Hi! Would you be willing to share one of those TIFFs? If we can reproduce the crash, we can try to fix it.
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by cmyk_student 2mo ago
Hi! I dug through issue report archives to try and learn more about Fade. From what I understand ( https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/3558#note_7... ), it seems like it was reimplemented as &
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by cmyk_student 2mo ago
For what it's worth, there's been a lot of turnover in developers in the last 20 years. I've read some comments on older issue reports, and it made me understand why people think GIMP developers are abrasive (even though that
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by cmyk_student 2mo ago
The first section after the recent news on the home pages says "High Quality Photo Manipulation: GIMP provides the tools needed for high quality image manipulation. From retouching to restoring to creative composites, the only limit is
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by cmyk_student 2mo ago
We do - we state exactly what GIMP is and what we aim for. That doesn't stop people from having their own conceptions. The "more like MS Paint" group tends to be longtime users who often prefer the destructive editing approac
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by cmyk_student 2mo ago
I think the challenge is that there are so many expectations. From reading and responding to issue reports, it seems like a group of people expect us to be Photoshop and another group expects us to be MS Paint - and making one group happy
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by cmyk_student 4mo ago
I believe it's a step up from "design by whichever developer implemented a particular feature", which was the norm. :) More seriously, we're trying to attract more designers and design feedback, just like we do for codin
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by cmyk_student 4mo ago
What version of GIMP are you running? Stable GIMP at this point (at least by our definition) is GIMP 3.2, which definitely has this feature. If you've been using 2.10 or earlier, then yeah, it wouldn't be in there.
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by cmyk_student 4mo ago
For what it's worth, there is a built-in arrow brush in GIMP 3.2 (we updated the MyPaint brushes engine and got it for free as a result).
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by cmyk_student 4mo ago
Copy & Paste default behavior was changed in GIMP 3.0 (I was one of the people who worked on the change). GIMP 2.10 and earlier creating floating selections as described earlier. I've gotten equal parts praise and complaints for wo
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by cmyk_student 4mo ago
Non-destructive text outline has been around for a while now: https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/11/18/gimp-2-99-14-released/#... Non-destructive resize works on vector layers and link layers (essential
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by cmyk_student 4mo ago
Possibly as part of our in-progress extension platform. The extension infrastructure is already built (e.g. you could package the theme as .gex file and have GIMP recognize it), and we have a GSoC student working on some aspects of it (at t
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by cmyk_student 4mo ago
Far from it - we even have a dedicated design site where we ask for UX-specific bug reports and improvement requests from users: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux/-/work_it... We th

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