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GIMP 3.0 RC2 Released (www.gimp.org)

submitted 1 week ago by furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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After the first round of community feedback, we’re happy to share the second release candidate for GIMP 3.0! People gave us really helpful feedback from the first release candidate and we were able to fix a lot of bugs.

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[–] PlasticLove@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Weren’t they gonna change the name or something?

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 13 points 1 week ago

According to the roadmap at https://developer.gimp.org/core/roadmap/ its not planned to change the name.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A few years ago there was some news about a fork called glimpse, but nobody cared so it died quickly.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was more than just a name and brand change, such as a workflow and look similar to Photoshop. And they had plans to introduce new functionality.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe they should have put that more into the focus, but everything that I had read about it back then was always only about the name change.

[–] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 2 points 1 week ago

They should have focused on the name change, to prove that there is a demand for "GIMP but with another name". Everything else can be done in the main project or any fork, and that those don't exist show that the manpower needed for that isn't really available.

[–] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 6 points 1 week ago

There was a separate project that changed the name to "Glimpse", and then got too many other great ideas for the few people they had to actually get somewhere and it dissolved.