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Their goal is to release for may 24.

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[–] allywilson@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

with focus shifted towards completing the port to GTK3

Is that a typo? I would have thought most software was shifting to GTK4 now?

[–] Matth78@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Sadly, I don't think so. Searching about that I found out they switched to GTK3 interface being default just before GTK4 was released... And making the switch from GTK2 took a long time.

[–] SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

GTK4 is planned for 2050 (expect 5-6 year delay).

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't know what GTK means and couldn't find it in the link. Care to share?

[–] gens@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gimp Tool Kit, where gimp means Gnu Image Manipulation Program, where gnu means Gnu's Not Unix. So, in short, gnu's not unix image manipulation program tool kit.

[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Never realised the G was GIMP... hilarious that its namesake software is lagging so far behind

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tengkuizdihar@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

going to be the party pooper here, but GTK means Gnu Tool Kit. It's a framework to build gui applicatiion.

[–] user8e8f87c@berlin.social 6 points 1 year ago

@bl4kers @allywilson Its a framework for GUI applications.

[–] allywilson@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 year ago

I mean, I did quote the partial sentence from the link. You can look that up.

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Last time I used gimp was in the late 90s I think. I gather it's pretty much the same as when I last tried..?

I've found Krita to be pretty good (though I can load slowly on slow machines).

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't uses gimp since the time of Ubuntu CDs

[–] Matth78@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I admit for the very limited things I do and only occasionally I use Paint.net

Still in my mind Gimp is much more powerful?

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

It is powerful, but usability is as shit as it always has been. Except for specific use cases Krita is the way to go nowadays. Even if it's focussed on digital painting, it has almost everything you need for digital editing as well, with a much more user friendly UX.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I admit for the very limited things I do and only occasionally I use Paint.net

Unfortunately, it's not available on Linux

Still in my mind Gimp is much more powerful?

Yes it is, but it's also much more complicated. I never fully understood GIMP, I prefer simpler options like Paint.net.

[–] chicagohuman@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I use it a fair amount. But I think the name is still an issue for some people. They should change it to GLIMPSE. GNU Libre Image Manipulation Program SoftwarE ... or something

[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I was hyped for it coming before the end of this year. Anyways its great the project isn't dead

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They said 3.0 this year a few months back. I think you could have rebuilt GIMP on GTK4 in the same time it's taken them to try and port the project up to GTK3.