GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!
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Welcome to GIMP 3.0!
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samedev
in reply to GIMP • • •Unus Nemo
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The latest version of GIMP on Alpine's official repo is 2.10.28r3. I do not know if 3.0 is on the Edge repo or not though you may not want to enable Edge on your daily driver.
If you have flatpak installed with the flathub repository enabled then you could install gimp 3.0.0 from flathub. Other than that I am afraid it is waiting for the Alpine maintainers to upgrade the version of gimp they offer in their repo or building it yourself from source and installing it.
My daily driver is Fedora 41 though I have Alpine on a VM. As a rule of thumb I install from my system's repo if they have it then resort to flatpak if they do not. Though Fedora also has their own flatpak repository so I use:
official repo
fedora flatpak
flathub
In that order. I do not care for snap or appimage.
samedev
in reply to Unus Nemo • • •leeuw
in reply to GIMP • • •OldCoder
in reply to GIMP • • •I've built GIMP-3 from source. It's nice. My #Linux distro will keep GIMP-2 and feature GIMP-3 as well. I'll comment that, for me, two features are missing from GIMP-3:
SVG support requires Rust now. Rust is a huge dependency to need to add just to get SVG. Additionally, Rust isn't available for some distros and/or architectures. So, for me, GIMP-3 will need to omit SVG. I think that some other distros will make the same decision.
The Create Logo command is gone as well.
Comment to @GIMP : It shouldn't be difficult for "file-svg.c" to support the 'C' version of librsvg. In fact, the code is already there in an "#else" block. It looks like relatively minor changes are needed. However, I haven't been able to make it work yet.
On the other hand, Resynthesizer and #GMIC both bu
... show moreI've built GIMP-3 from source. It's nice. My #Linux distro will keep GIMP-2 and feature GIMP-3 as well. I'll comment that, for me, two features are missing from GIMP-3:
SVG support requires Rust now. Rust is a huge dependency to need to add just to get SVG. Additionally, Rust isn't available for some distros and/or architectures. So, for me, GIMP-3 will need to omit SVG. I think that some other distros will make the same decision.
The Create Logo command is gone as well.
Comment to @GIMP : It shouldn't be difficult for "file-svg.c" to support the 'C' version of librsvg. In fact, the code is already there in an "#else" block. It looks like relatively minor changes are needed. However, I haven't been able to make it work yet.
On the other hand, Resynthesizer and #GMIC both build and work. The base GIMP-3 filters plus those two add-ons are most of what I need.
Note to distro admins: To build Resynthesizer for GIMP-3 from source, you presently need to use the "resynthesizer3" git branch.
@gmic may be pleased to hear that GIMP 3.0.2 and GMIC 3.5.3 are confirmed to be simpatico. See the attached screenshot.
Note: The distro and desktop used here are my own 30-year-old project, Laclin. I'm as fond of it as the GIMP and GMIC teams are of their projects.
#FOSS #graphics
GIMP
in reply to OldCoder • • •OldCoder
in reply to GIMP • • •GIMP
in reply to OldCoder • • •@oldcoder @gmic yes, please feel free to file an issue with a test case.
For the old logo scripts (which probably no longer work), you can try tools / gegl filter, and choose GEGL Styles or Filters / Generic / Text styles (same thing) will get you a long way.