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IKOL said:
>no comparison images
I remember my last interaction with GIMP and I'd rather don't have new one.
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They have a few new features listed:
  • Need to tweak a filter you applied hours ago? New in GIMP 3.0 is non-destructive editing for most commonly-used filters. See the changes in real time with on-canvas preview.
  • Exchange files with more applications, including BC7 DDS files as well as better PSD export and many new formats.
  • Don’t know how big to make your drawing? Simply set your paint tool to expand layers automatically as needed.
  • Making pro-quality text got easier, too. Style your text, apply outlines, shadows, bevels, and more, and you can still edit your text, change font and size, and even tweak the style settings.
  • Organizing your layers has become much easier with the ability to select multiple items at once, move them or transform them all together!
  • Color Management was again improved, as our long-term project to make GIMP an advanced image editor for all usages.
  • Updated graphical toolkit (GTK3) for modern desktop usage.
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Some of these do sound legitimately useful.
 
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Updated to GTK3. Meaning it's less themeable and flexible, far less configurable, harder to tweak, and with "support" that essentially amounts to being told they know better than you, and you're stupid for wanting to do [thing] your way instead of theirs. Systemd tendrils buried deep inside it too, because of course it is.

Bleh.
 
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moocow said:
less themeable and flexible, far less configurable, harder to tweak
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What is the use case for customizability?
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I've been using Gimp 3 for a while now through Debian Testing/Unstable. It's pretty ok, I haven't noticed any differences really from Gimp 2 for what I use it for.

As far as the GTK seething on here, I get that. Gnome seems determined to outdo Windows 8 in crappy ui experience and look. However, Gimp 3's ui still looks closer to qt or GTK-2.

There are people on here that just like to bitch about everything, generally with no first hand experience.
 
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Slav Power said:
Nothing drama related but it is newsworthy: GIMP 3 has been officially released.
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Great news!
Although the funniest thing is, it STILL is not using the latest GTK, and version 3 means, among other things, that they finally got rid of the code using the old-old-stable GTK 2.

And considering how GTK changes are so severe between revisions that it made several projects move to its main competitor Qt, I can expect another decade to make GIMP-GTK current.

And by that time GTK would have a new, and thoroughly incompatible new major version.
 
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DrearyDoomguy said:
They have a few new features listed:

Some of these do sound legitimately useful.
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The text itself being able to be changed after applying effects (and the effect applying to the new text) sounds really nice, if that's what that is. It's annoying on gimp2 sometimes to apply an effect and decide much later that you want to change the text.
 
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