GTK handles the UI as well as UI events (click, key, scroll, drag, etc). It's very tightly integrated into GIMP itself (the 'G' in GTK use to stand for GIMP, in fact), and has been for decades. GIMP is not new software.…
Ah, gotcha - thanks for the heads-up! We're normally more selective with screenshots in actual release notes, but since this was a (even more) informal development update post, I used what photos were available (for…
It may not be quite as niche as people think: https://fosstodon.org/@GIMP@floss.social/116674728764606215 To your first point, it's difficult to know people's frame of reference online. I've listened to many complaints…
The icon clash is unique to me - I prefer the colorful Legacy icon so I set it to that. It's not the "default" view, it's just a screenshot I grabbed from my own development build. I appreciate the annotated screenshot!…
Hi! There are actually options for most of those. 1) When you apply a filter, there's a "Merge filter" checkbox. If you check it, filters will be merged down immediately like in 2.10. The setting is remembered, though…
The problem is that there's not just one "user". Tons of people have used GIMP for decades and are use to how it works - so changes to be less "user-hostile" can make it hostile to existing users. For instance, we were…
We didn't go into this in the news post since it was a quick overview, but GIMP uses GEGL for its main color and pixel engine. GEGL has a feature where you can automatically sync data between "buffers" in memory and in…
If you think it's UX related concern, then I'd recommend posting it on the UX tracker first. But even if it's posted in the "wrong place", it'll likely be moved to the right one after it's looked at, if that makes…
We added import support for most Photoshop palette formats (ACB, ACO, ASE), so you can use them in GIMP. I don't think we can directly include Pantone palettes in the install because of copyright issues, but if you…
One of our contributors does a lot of upkeep work, and he normally ports UX-related issues from the code tracker to the UX repo. Not 100% perfect, but it helps keep the focus in the right spot.
We're working on an extension platform, and once that's up and running we'll probably reach out to PhotoGIMP developers (https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp) and see if they want to host it there. Then people can…
To be honest, I didn't think about it too hard - I just wrote "a XCF" because it doesn't start with a vowel. I don't think it's worth submitting an edit for, but you're welcome to consider it "an XCF".
We didn't go into it in the news post, but one of the big benefits of this new format is that we can sync GeglBuffers (how pixel data is stored) automatically between GIMP and the new file. So you'll get fast auto-saves…
That someone is actually the maintainer of GIMP, and the person who is currently developing the new format (unless you mean one of the commenters, not the person who made the initial post).
We actually have a design site where we ask for user feedback and UX/UI improvement suggestions: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux/-/work_it... I share this link a lot in the hopes that more people take…
Thanks! Our tracker is a good place to post the issue report and image: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items (If you can, zip it beforehand, as sometimes metadata that causes problems gets stripped out when…
Just my experience, but the relatively few fully AI-generated merge requests we've received that were "big features" were all really bad. For instance, we had one person submit a merge request to convert the entire GIMP…
Hi! Would you be willing to share one of those TIFFs? If we can reproduce the crash, we can try to fix it.
Hi! I dug through issue report archives to try and learn more about Fade. From what I understand (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/3558#note_7...), it seems like it was reimplemented as "Blending Modes"…
For what it's worth, there's been a lot of turnover in developers in the last 20 years. I've read some comments on older issue reports, and it made me understand why people think GIMP developers are abrasive (even…
The first section after the recent news on the home pages says "High Quality Photo Manipulation: GIMP provides the tools needed for high quality image manipulation. From retouching to restoring to creative composites,…
We do - we state exactly what GIMP is and what we aim for. That doesn't stop people from having their own conceptions. The "more like MS Paint" group tends to be longtime users who often prefer the destructive editing…
I think the challenge is that there are so many expectations. From reading and responding to issue reports, it seems like a group of people expect us to be Photoshop and another group expects us to be MS Paint - and…
I believe it's a step up from "design by whichever developer implemented a particular feature", which was the norm. :) More seriously, we're trying to attract more designers and design feedback, just like we do for…
What version of GIMP are you running? Stable GIMP at this point (at least by our definition) is GIMP 3.2, which definitely has this feature. If you've been using 2.10 or earlier, then yeah, it wouldn't be in there.
GTK handles the UI as well as UI events (click, key, scroll, drag, etc). It's very tightly integrated into GIMP itself (the 'G' in GTK use to stand for GIMP, in fact), and has been for decades. GIMP is not new software.…
Ah, gotcha - thanks for the heads-up! We're normally more selective with screenshots in actual release notes, but since this was a (even more) informal development update post, I used what photos were available (for…
It may not be quite as niche as people think: https://fosstodon.org/@GIMP@floss.social/116674728764606215 To your first point, it's difficult to know people's frame of reference online. I've listened to many complaints…
The icon clash is unique to me - I prefer the colorful Legacy icon so I set it to that. It's not the "default" view, it's just a screenshot I grabbed from my own development build. I appreciate the annotated screenshot!…
Hi! There are actually options for most of those. 1) When you apply a filter, there's a "Merge filter" checkbox. If you check it, filters will be merged down immediately like in 2.10. The setting is remembered, though…
The problem is that there's not just one "user". Tons of people have used GIMP for decades and are use to how it works - so changes to be less "user-hostile" can make it hostile to existing users. For instance, we were…
We didn't go into this in the news post since it was a quick overview, but GIMP uses GEGL for its main color and pixel engine. GEGL has a feature where you can automatically sync data between "buffers" in memory and in…
If you think it's UX related concern, then I'd recommend posting it on the UX tracker first. But even if it's posted in the "wrong place", it'll likely be moved to the right one after it's looked at, if that makes…
We added import support for most Photoshop palette formats (ACB, ACO, ASE), so you can use them in GIMP. I don't think we can directly include Pantone palettes in the install because of copyright issues, but if you…
One of our contributors does a lot of upkeep work, and he normally ports UX-related issues from the code tracker to the UX repo. Not 100% perfect, but it helps keep the focus in the right spot.
We're working on an extension platform, and once that's up and running we'll probably reach out to PhotoGIMP developers (https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp) and see if they want to host it there. Then people can…
To be honest, I didn't think about it too hard - I just wrote "a XCF" because it doesn't start with a vowel. I don't think it's worth submitting an edit for, but you're welcome to consider it "an XCF".
We didn't go into it in the news post, but one of the big benefits of this new format is that we can sync GeglBuffers (how pixel data is stored) automatically between GIMP and the new file. So you'll get fast auto-saves…
That someone is actually the maintainer of GIMP, and the person who is currently developing the new format (unless you mean one of the commenters, not the person who made the initial post).
We actually have a design site where we ask for user feedback and UX/UI improvement suggestions: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux/-/work_it... I share this link a lot in the hopes that more people take…
Thanks! Our tracker is a good place to post the issue report and image: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items (If you can, zip it beforehand, as sometimes metadata that causes problems gets stripped out when…
Just my experience, but the relatively few fully AI-generated merge requests we've received that were "big features" were all really bad. For instance, we had one person submit a merge request to convert the entire GIMP…
Hi! Would you be willing to share one of those TIFFs? If we can reproduce the crash, we can try to fix it.
Hi! I dug through issue report archives to try and learn more about Fade. From what I understand (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/3558#note_7...), it seems like it was reimplemented as "Blending Modes"…
For what it's worth, there's been a lot of turnover in developers in the last 20 years. I've read some comments on older issue reports, and it made me understand why people think GIMP developers are abrasive (even…
The first section after the recent news on the home pages says "High Quality Photo Manipulation: GIMP provides the tools needed for high quality image manipulation. From retouching to restoring to creative composites,…
We do - we state exactly what GIMP is and what we aim for. That doesn't stop people from having their own conceptions. The "more like MS Paint" group tends to be longtime users who often prefer the destructive editing…
I think the challenge is that there are so many expectations. From reading and responding to issue reports, it seems like a group of people expect us to be Photoshop and another group expects us to be MS Paint - and…
I believe it's a step up from "design by whichever developer implemented a particular feature", which was the norm. :) More seriously, we're trying to attract more designers and design feedback, just like we do for…
What version of GIMP are you running? Stable GIMP at this point (at least by our definition) is GIMP 3.2, which definitely has this feature. If you've been using 2.10 or earlier, then yeah, it wouldn't be in there.