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GSoC2026: What to expect (image editing, animation, 3D, and engineering)(librearts.org)
13 points by prokoudine 5mo ago|1 comments
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GIMP at LGM2026: committee, grants, no-AI policy, and that GSoC thing(librearts.org)
26 points by prokoudine 5mo ago|0 comments
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by prokoudine 6mo ago
> Basically, they are completely hostile to feedback from people who've spent their entire career doing CAD. There's an entire working group in the project comprised of people who have spent their entire career doing CAD and no
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by prokoudine 6mo ago
It isn't minor at all :)
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by prokoudine 7mo ago
It would have to be done someday. We are slowly running out of desktop environments that haven't abandoned X11.
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by prokoudine 7mo ago
Not exactly a DAW, but check out Giada.
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by prokoudine 1y ago
Here is what students around the world will be contributing to GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, and other projects
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Meet Anagram, a Linux-powered bass FX processor(librearts.org)
7 points by prokoudine 1y ago|1 comments
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by prokoudine 1y ago
Anagram by Darkglass Electronics uses Buildroot (via the MOD Build System layer), JACK2 sound server, LV2 plugin host, a neural network amp emulator (open-source NAM and AIDA-X tech), and several free/open plugins (fil4.lv2 for a globa
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by prokoudine 1y ago
You could get the same stable diffusion stuff for GIMP two years ago: https://github.com/ArtBIT/stable-gimpfusion
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by prokoudine 2y ago
I think everyone will benefit from UX contributions.
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by prokoudine 2y ago
Hi Alastair :) Yes, I understand the frustration. The team didn't come up with anything better although maybe they could. I think another suggestion in this thread could very well be posted to GIMP's issue tracker.
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by prokoudine 2y ago
2004: STOP TELLING ME I'M GOING TO LOSE MY LAYERS WHEN SAVING TO JPEG! Also 2004: HOW DO I RECOVER LAYERS FROM JPEG? 2024: STOP TELLING ME YOU ONLY SAVE TO XCF AND I NEED TO EXPORT TO JPEG! Also 2024: crickets I'm not kidding yo
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by prokoudine 2y ago
It did find its way to the team, thank you :)
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by prokoudine 2y ago
What kind of projects? Is there a story to tell on FreeCAD's blog?
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by prokoudine 2y ago
Ah, that explains it. Yeah, the next version of the website will integrate the blog into the main website. So navigation shouldn't be a problem anymore.
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by prokoudine 2y ago
Is that a trick question? The Features page is right in the main menu, extremely visible.
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by prokoudine 2y ago
Neither Fusion nor SolidWorks mention supported operating systems on their respective homepages. That doesn't seem to present an issue, eh? :) As for your other points, FreeCAD's homepage does explain what this software can do. It
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by prokoudine 2y ago
> Yes, that part's obvious just by the name. But what OS does it run on, or does it run in the browser? The 'download now' button is right on the home page above the fold. When you click it, you see three huge icons for wi
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by prokoudine 2y ago
It's also what FOSS projects do
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by prokoudine 2y ago
Sounds like you are mad at the world and I got in the middle of it. Sorry, I'll see myself out.
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by prokoudine 2y ago
> You’ve proven my point. No, not really. You did say 'feature set'. > A bunch of data loading crap, Sure, if you like editing with color fidelity loss. > but nothing substantial on the usability. Except non-destructive e
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by prokoudine 2y ago
Much of that has been improved for the next release.
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by prokoudine 2y ago
LibreCAD v3 is very nearly abandoned. I could be wrong, but the vast majority of the new code there came from GSoC students who didn't quite stick around for long except just one who did multiple GSoCs but also eventually left.
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by prokoudine 2y ago
> Why is open source always so bad at UUX - it's so frustrating. To illustrate why... There's a certain "artistic" FOSS project (before you ask — not GIMP) where the community, incl. former lead dev basically say this
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by prokoudine 2y ago
> Gimp seems to have the same awkward feature set for 25 years. Apparently the only thing that has changed is they no longer compile against Gtk 1.0, and they decided to have all images in a single window. Off the top of my head: - Full
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by prokoudine 2y ago
Well, I could go on and on about this, but consuming FreeCAD is not just unrealistic, it's undesirable. The best a startup company can do is work in quick iterations: throw things at the proverbial wall to see what sticks, then scale u
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by prokoudine 2y ago
Businesses that ask for donations don't have a long and happy life :) What you could do instead is donate to the FreeCAD Project Association. Part of the money goes into the development fund, that is, grants for developers.
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by prokoudine 2y ago
> I've been rooting for FreeCAD but I think it's just going to be consumed by Ondsel in the next few years. Extremely unlikely. Also, no such plans :)
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by prokoudine 2y ago
Aren't there Rust bindings to ImGui?

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