Man they’re ahead of schedule, GTK3 isn’t even obsolete yet
year of the Linux desktop before gimp 3
I don’t want to sound ungrateful to their earnest effort, but at this point, GIMP3 is like the running joke of the open source world.
The “running joke” used by millions for serious and playful projects? [edited for punctuation]I was talking specifically about v3, which is not out (yet?).
Oooooh, okay, I misread. Apologies.
What even is GTK2 and GTK3?
GTK is a UI toolkit, i.e. a piece of software that draws uniform-looking buttons and scrollbars and the like.
GTK used to stand for “GIMP toolkit” but GTK and GIMP development are now entirely separate, so much so, in fact, that 13 years after the release of GTK 3 and 3 years after the release of GTK 4, GIMP still hasn’t upgraded to either.
13 years, damn…
Gtk 2 is old, Gtk 3 current and Gtk 4 is new.
Different versions of the Gnome Took Kit: https://www.gtk.org/
Ahem the GIMP Toolkit.
I thought they have renamed it one day from GTK+ Gimp Tool Kit to Gnome Tool Kit, but I do not find this anymore. Imho Gnome Toolkit would be at least much more appropriate…
They renamed it to GTK, dropping the initialism. It was always intended as a generic toolkit. At least until v4.
I pretty much avoid GIMP now. It became a pity download years ago, but now I’m just not bothering to wait for them to bring the software to the current decade.
Alternatives exist like Photopea, which even with a quarter of the screen covered in ads is way more performant, let alone productive.
Not to blame the maintainers, it seems like they’ve been left with a mess of spaghetti and no one is willing to help out. I can’t say I’m surprised it’s taken so long.
At this point im just happy when it doesnt crash while changing text color…
