'Gimp3 RC2' AppImage From Git Source

[Tas_mania]

Gimp AppImages are now available from the Gimp development page.

Unfortunately none available @ January 2 2025. 

Quote:The download links only live for a few days.

The weekly job artifact last for 8 days so we always have a weekly artifact

   

The splashscreen says Gimp3.0.0-RC2 but the 'About' says 3.0.0-RC1. This is a pleasing Gimp3 to use. It feels more complete now.

[vitforlinux]

One day, finally, Gimp 3.0 will come out, and we won't have to nitpick (in italian "guardare i peli nell uovo" literally "see hair in the egg" ) anymore.

This is a 2.99.19, it couldn't be anything else... but in 2.99.19 the splash says 3.0rc2 and the welcome window 3.0rc1+GIT.

At least this is "authentic".

[Ofnuts]

(12-25-2024, 03:32 PM)vitforlinux Wrote: One day, finally, Gimp 3.0 will come out, and we won't have to nitpick (in italian "guardare i peli nell uovo" literally "see hair in the egg" ) anymore.

This is a 2.99.19, it couldn't be anything else... but in 2.99.19 the splash says 3.0rc2 and the welcome window 3.0rc1+GIT.

At least this is "authentic".

I didn't see any official announcement of RC2. I recently pulled the source from GitLab and recompiled to check a fix and the splash is also RC2, so it could be just preliminary updates before the official RC2 is built (and I assume that when this happens, the AppImage will be copied to some more long-term download location.

[Tas_mania]

What surprised me about Gimp3 is that Linux, Windows and OSX issues are all being worked on in parallel.
Consider issue 12559?

   

The issue is caused by an antivirus product on Win and people are wondering why Gimp3 is taking years to finish? I don't think it's even finishable because MacOSX, Win and Linux are updating constantly.
 
Gimp must be needed by the makers of closed-source software to prop-up their consumer offerings. I kind of predicted this during 2024. I think Gimp3's problems are part of a broader issue. Neijuan is the Chinese term for “involution”, a concept from sociology that refers to a society that can no longer evolve, no matter how hard it tries.

[Ofnuts]

(12-25-2024, 09:14 PM)Tas_mania Wrote: What surprised me about Gimp3 is that Linux, Windows and OSX issues are all being worked on in parallel.
Consider issue 12559?



The issue is caused by an antivirus product on Win and people are wondering why Gimp3 is taking years to finish? I don't think it's even finishable because MacOSX, Win and Linux are updating constantly.
 
Gimp must be needed by the makers of closed-source software to prop-up their consumer offerings. I kind of predicted this during 2024. I think Gimp3's problems are part of a broader issue. Neijuan is the Chinese term for “involution”, a concept from sociology that refers to a society that can no longer evolve, no matter how hard it tries.

This looks like a random false hit. Methinks it will be shrugged off by the developers, because random minor changes in the source code are likely  to make the next build not trigger that again.

The problem with Gimp is there are not that many developers and there is currently only one very active (Jehan, 30% of the commits, the new one, cymkstudent, at 10%...), and they are currently a bit more focused on adding function than on making sure that everything works (for their defense, I see plenty of people using the RC and not that many people reporting bugs, while this is the purpose of RCs...).

[vitforlinux]

To release Gimp 3.0 rc2 the check list is at 26/77,
No Gimp 3.0 rc2 is not out yet.

Some antiviruses report "we don't know this file" as a virus... and Gimp 2.99.19 / 3.0 files change daily.

Years ago Avast blocked a printer driver for me... and that's saying something. I manually indicated not to block, that was it.

[Tas_mania]

Quote:The problem with Gimp is there are not that many developers and there is currently only one very active (Jehan, 30% of the commits, the new one, cymkstudent, at 10%...), and they are currently a bit more focused on adding function than on making sure that everything works (for their defense, I see plenty of people using the RC and not that many people reporting bugs, while this is the purpose of RCs...).

Good comment. I notice Aix Sa and Bruno also make commits with others doing GEGL and translation commits.

   

The Gimp team currently get donations of 376 EU a week  Just noticed there is no Euro symbol on this US keyboard
I donate to Wikipedia because I use it alot     In my mind Gimp gets donations from big software companies like Apple and MS but that is probably not correct. (That's just how Tasmania works LoL )

[CmykStudent]

(12-26-2024, 10:55 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: The problem with Gimp is there are not that many developers and there is currently only one very active (Jehan, 30% of the commits, the new one, cymkstudent, at 10%...), and they are currently a bit more focused on adding function than on making sure that everything works (for their defense, I see plenty of people using the RC and not that many people reporting bugs, while this is the purpose of RCs...).

Wow, that's surprising to hear! At least internally, our focus is definitely on bug fixes rather than adding new features - until after 3.0 is released. I looked at the thus-far 3.0 RC2 completed issues to check, and almost all of them were about bugs in RC1 (including many that you reported, which we appreciate!) rather than new functionality.
The only big "feature" I can think of is the new public Filter API, but that's more about fixing a regression for script/plug-in developers and having a more flexible API. It's part of why we're putting out an RC2 though, since we want more community testing.

There's also more active developers than just Jehan and I - maybe they just talk about their work less? Anyway, just interesting to hear a different perception!

**EDIT**: Forgot to say, we're waiting for the GEGL 0.4.52 release before making the "official" 3.0 RC2 announcement, so we can bundle it (it also has bugfixes that affect GIMP). We're pretty much ready to go, although we've been using the extra time to get a few more fixes in.

Tas_mania: I'm not involved in the donation side of things, but I don't think Apple, Microsoft, or any other large company donates to GIMP (outside of Microsoft helping with the Windows Store app).

[Tas_mania]

Well RC2 is now out  

   
Gimp AppImages are available from the Pipeline Schedules page.
Current one is broken at January 2 2025.


Thanks CMYKStudent for those last MR's The heading of this post is now accurate