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GIMP - Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate (www.gimp.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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GIMP 3.0 is over 96% complete! The GIMP team got sick at the Libre Arts conference over the summer, hence the setback to the release schedule but they are now back making good progress.

Along with non-destructive editing and a colour overhaul we've all been waiting for, longstanding critics of the UI/UX will be pleased to hear that GIMP are setting up a UX repository and are looking to build a dedicated team of designers to develop this.

All of these things look set to make the GIMP project feel a lot more current and dynamic. I can't wait!

And if anyone wants to help out it looks like testing/reporting, donations and updating the help manual are all welcomed by the project at the moment.

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For me, the biggest thing was the program not running from a single window. IIRC there was actually a separate fork of GIMP that made it run in a single window called GIMPshop or something, and that made it into a single window. I'm not sure when GIMP itself got single window functionality.

It's a lot more usable these days.