Anybody looking forward to GIMP-3.0?

cracauer@ said:
Anybody looking forward to GIMP-3.0?

it might re-vitalize my whole photography hobby.

The only thing I am concerned about is the move to Gtk+-3. That transition went very badly for e.g. Jamin.
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I am a (extremely limited) GIMP user, so I'm looking forward to 3.0 . I was using the beta release before moving from Arch to FreeBSD a few months ago and I have to say it worked just fine. As for now I see no problems in using GTK3; GTK4 would have been a no-go for me, though.
 
If I look how was GIMP back in 1995 or 96 is like a day and night :). I have GIMP from start on computer (and Inkscape the same) and I am using them too. As I red and saw on Youtube it looks big improvement. I hope that will come in ports too.
 
I do... Although I have been using the 2.99 preview since a while...

GIMP 3 will bring the full GEGL framework so from this version it will be possible to add all the major shiny things other commercial software do liike: non-destructive editing, printing color space, etc... Although I'd like to see better vector/SVG integration in GIMP.
 
It will be interesting to install, but the 2nd branch is enough for me for now. I don't use the tools much.
It's not the first time I've heard that "Krita" is better for creativity and art, but I don't have time to learn "Krita" in my old age...
Somewhere in a dusty corner I have HDD with Windows 11, I'll have to put it there if it's not in our packages for a long time.
 
I am a Krita user and moreso Inkscape.

I find these monolithic programs like Blender and Gimp to be less than usable. They try and jam too much in.

Adobe had it right with seperate tools for the whole creative kit. Blender is trying to do it all. But it is not easy to use.

How aboout the #1 tool I use. Magic Lasso.
People bring me artwork and I got to create something the waterjet understands. So I am tracing line paths alot.
Inkscapes Magic Lasso is on par with Adobe Illustrator at this point and it outputs AI files from my line paths.
Groovy. AI files are universal like STL.
 
Phishfry said:
I am a Krita user and moreso Inkscape.

I find these monolithic programs like Blender and Gimp to be less than usable. They try and jam too much in.

Adobe had it right with seperate tools for the whole creative kit. Blender is trying to do it all. But it is not easy to use.

How aboout the #1 tool I use. Magic Lasso.
People bring me artwork and I got to create something the waterjet understands. So I am tracing line paths alot.
Inkscapes Magic Lasso is on par with Adobe Illustrator at this point and it outputs AI files from my line paths.
Groovy. AI files are universal like STL.
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Yes, Blender is not easy and it needs good graphics cad. Inkscape works great and GIMP too on my T495.
 
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As i do play with gimp once in a while - im kinda want to see what they made in 20 years and if i like it - i will use it more as i do like to create my own wallpapers.
 
I will be interested to see GIMP-3. I recently switched to GIMP after 30 years of using Photoshop. I am able to do what I need to do, but it is very tedious, because GIMP doesn't work like Photoshop (which is not a flaw, just a difference). Since I don't have a lot of muscle memory for using GIMP yet, I can probably deal with a lot of changes in the UI, without making my situation any worse than it is.
 
One of my primary beefs with GIMP is that it steals the MIME types of too many extensions. It blows my system up.

How can I install gimp without the MIME types. I use Krita and I need that. I would like to try GIMP from time to time but it stomps on my settings.

Rather than start a new thread I figured here is good. How can I reform GIMP. Going through 25 file extensions to convert back in MIME settings is not an answer.

LibreOffice is even worse. Stealing MIME focus of conf files from an editor? It does a crazy amount of MIME types. I don't want it.
Shame on you.
pkg delete libreoffice && pkg install abiword
 
Phishfry said:
One of my primary beefs with GIMP is that it steals the MIME types of too many extensions. It blows my system up.

How can I install gimp without the MIME types. I use Krita and I need that. I would like to try GIMP from time to time but it stomps on my settings.
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I tend to just grab the package and dependencies and extract it manually to /opt/gimp. This software is far too large and has far too many dependencies to spray it all over my /usr/local prefix.
 
Phishfry said:
One of my primary beefs with GIMP is that it steals the MIME types of too many extensions. It blows my system up.

How can I install gimp without the MIME types. I use Krita and I need that. I would like to try GIMP from time to time but it stomps on my settings.

Rather than start a new thread I figured here is good. How can I reform GIMP. Going through 25 file extensions to convert back in MIME settings is not an answer.

LibreOffice is even worse. Stealing MIME focus of conf files from an editor? It does a crazy amount of MIME types. I don't want it.
Shame on you.
pkg delete libreoffice && pkg install abiword
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How fast is Krita to compare with Gimp, please? Gimp works on my laptop fast.
 
How fast does it open image files or what is your concern? The program opens slow like most graphics programs. I don't really have any thoughts about speed.
Its more about tools and ease of use. Do left clicks do what I want. Are features burried too deep. Does my drawing tablet work with it in a productive way.
 
Phishfry said:
One of my primary beefs with GIMP is that it steals the MIME types of too many extensions. It blows my system up.

How can I install gimp without the MIME types. I use Krita and I need that. I would like to try GIMP from time to time but it stomps on my settings.

Rather than start a new thread I figured here is good. How can I reform GIMP. Going through 25 file extensions to convert back in MIME settings is not an answer.

LibreOffice is even worse. Stealing MIME focus of conf files from an editor? It does a crazy amount of MIME types. I don't want it.
Shame on you.
pkg delete libreoffice && pkg install abiword
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On Windows I kind of like 3rd-party apps auto-taking priority for types. GIMP afaik doesn't do anything (I do custom install and only add the win32 theme thing/uncheck everything else), and I right-click -> edit in GIMP pictures occasionally. I've rarely opened GIMP by itself to a blank template. LibreOffice is similar, but I have it set on docx/Office stuff (also custom install; no extras except dictionaries and Explorer integration). Notepad++ I only have the context menu edit for serious conf file editing, but default to Windows Notepad usually. Win11 does app/mime handling differently to where I think it's a little more-annoying to have 3rd-party apps blanket-handle everything (7zip doesn't takeover iso/etc vs Win10), but I'm wondering if it's handled better from a security standpoint.

With FreeBSD and Xfce I had the default pic viewer set to Ristretto, and any random files that opened in something else I manually set (I remember txt files annoying opening in LibreOffice and LO taking forever to start first-time); it was a few text files and pics iirc and a few seconds of GUI clicks to configure so I didn't find it too annoying, but I'd be doing something different for sure if I had 20+ extensions doing that :p
 
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