GIMP 3.0.0 tagged (gitlab.gnome.org)
from that_leaflet@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 01:43
https://lemmy.world/post/26951042

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/26951027

Draft Release Notes: testing.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html

Will soon be published to Flathub

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KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz on 17 Mar 02:12 next collapse

It’s happening!

flamingos@feddit.uk on 17 Mar 02:18 next collapse

gtk2 is gone 🦀🦀🦀

jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Mar 09:02 collapse

RUST IS INEVITABLE 🦀🦀🦀

deadcream@sopuli.xyz on 17 Mar 16:59 collapse

Gimp devs will have to port it to Gtk 4 before rewriting it in Rust, because Rust Gtk 3 bindings are now obsolete lol.

mactan@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 05:16 next collapse

gimp 3 and proper hdr in the same year. never would have guessed it would be so contemporaneous

fossphi@lemm.ee on 17 Mar 10:53 next collapse

2025 is finally the year of the Linux desktop!

communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz on 18 Mar 00:42 collapse

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.

communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz on 18 Mar 00:36 collapse

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:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/…/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:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/…/264 gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/…/18

the last few years of linux development have essentially been defined by technical debt, we’re finally about to shake off those shackles.

hilliard@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 08:04 next collapse

:-)

Quazatron@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 08:53 next collapse

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.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 14:54 collapse

Gimp 2.0 was released eight months before Half Life 2.

jayandp@sh.itjust.works on 17 Mar 15:18 next collapse

So you’re telling me…

Half Life 3 confirmed!

InFerNo@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 22:47 collapse

8 more months until we got HL3!

TheGreyGhost@lemmy.ml on 18 Mar 06:49 collapse

I finished HL2 E2 a few weeks ago for the first time and I’m still waiting for the thrilling conclusion.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world on 18 Mar 09:59 next collapse

Relevant xkcd

TheGreyGhost@lemmy.ml on 20 Mar 06:06 collapse

There’s always a relevant xkcd, lol

Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works on 21 Mar 09:50 collapse

Ah shit, seriously? Congrats!

If you haven’t already, you should really play half life Alyx now! It’s an unforgettable experience in VR, so if you can hold out to play it in a headset you should!

If not though, there are mods out there to switch it to a standard flat-screen FPS. But I don’t think the experience would be nearly as cool!

TheGreyGhost@lemmy.ml on 22 Mar 07:31 collapse

I currently have no VR headset of any kind but it sounds fun (from what I’ve heard).

Quazatron@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 15:44 next collapse

So you’re implying we can expect Half-Life 3 for Christmas?

Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works on 21 Mar 09:54 collapse

Imagine the chads at valve actually respond to the gimp 3 release by announcing HL3.

bonus points if they use gimp 3 to make the thumbnail

dengtav@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 09:14 next collapse

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

ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 09:31 next collapse

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.

cypherpunks@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 10:32 collapse

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.)

knexcar@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 11:42 next collapse

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?

cypherpunks@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 11:59 collapse

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 flathub.org/apps/org.gimp.GIMP has 3.0.0 now, and from testing.gimp.org/downloads/ i see that download.gimp.org/…/GIMP-3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage is also there. presumably www.gimp.org/downloads/ will be updated very soon.

dengtav@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 12:31 next collapse

Thanks for the write up!! :)

brunox@feddit.cl on 17 Mar 13:34 collapse

In case anyone is curious, here’s the steps missing to get an official release.

fusiono@feddit.uk on 18 Mar 16:24 collapse

All checked! ✅

brunox@feddit.cl on 18 Mar 16:57 collapse

let’s f*cking gooooooo!!!

Dirk@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 10:28 next collapse

After seven years of active development

I wonder where they got this from. The 2.x branch was first released 21 years ago.

Chemo@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Mar 10:59 collapse

7 years of working on the 3.x branch?

Chemo@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Mar 11:02 next collapse

Does it support CMYK now?

Niiru@feddit.org on 17 Mar 13:20 next collapse

Afaik still only export profiles

1hitsong@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 13:46 next collapse

From the post: “This update also lays the groundwork for future CMYK and LAB image color modes.”

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 15:48 next collapse

Isn’t the problem that it’s blocked by a number of patents, or something like that?

LeFantome@programming.dev on 18 Mar 05:01 collapse

You can import and export to CMYK but, internally, it is still sRGB.

Scrollone@feddit.it on 18 Mar 06:31 next collapse

So I don’t want to imagine what happens to black pixels this way

Chemo@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Mar 15:59 collapse

Whow. I totally missed that I can export to CMYK.

_core@sh.itjust.works on 17 Mar 11:41 next collapse

Is it still a pile of hot garbage to use?

Scrollone@feddit.it on 18 Mar 06:33 collapse

People downvote you but gimp’s interface and UX is atrocious. I only use it because I’ve been using it for >20 years and I understand how it works, but still…

Abnorc@lemm.ee on 18 Mar 18:44 collapse

I remember downloading it a few years back to do some basic image editing and drawing. I think I wanted to make a simple diagram for a lab paper. I didn’t get very far though and ended up using an alternative program. It may not be objectively terrible. but the first time user experience leaves a lot to be desired.

3dmvr@lemm.ee on 17 Mar 14:00 next collapse

I havent used it in 15 years and will prob keep that up, used to weirdly love photo editing

curiousPJ@lemmy.world on 18 Mar 05:17 collapse

Let’s see… Can we draw circles in a convenient manner yet?