GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
    475·
    4 months ago

    port from GTK2 to GTK3

    Migrating from an already rooten toolkit to a toolkit that is dead since a few years.

    Nice.

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
        16·
        4 months ago

        Yeah … I just hope they’re now being able to decouple the UI and the core and make it easier to migrate to more recent UI toolkits.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 months ago

      Gimp has been falling behind more and more. Back when 2.0 came out it wasn’t as bad yet, but it got worse as years went on.

    • ___@lemm.ee
      3·
      4 months ago

      It’s almost like the whole customized apps to fit into the GTK framework concept creates too much added work and needs to be rethought.

      I don’t understand why someone should choose any GTK variant when they’ll have to refactor and rewrite their application every few years.