Using GIMP 2.10 and 3.0 on the same PC

[Krikor]

Hello everyone,

It seems that version 3.0 is approaching.

Unfortunately, many tasks (most of them) will become more difficult due to the inoperability of third-party plugins/scripts.

The question that brings me here is:

Will it be possible to keep my version 2.10 and have version 3.0 running at the same time without conflicts?

If so, how should I proceed (install) when downloading and testing version 3.0?

Thanks for the clarification!

Note: I will probably no longer use the portable version after version 3.0, so my intention is to have version 2.10 in portable mode and version 3.0 in standard mode.

[PixLab]

(Yesterday, 01:31 PM)Krikor Wrote: Hello everyone,

It seems that version 3.0 is approaching.

Unfortunately, many tasks (most of them) will become more difficult due to the inoperability of third-party plugins/scripts.

The question that brings me here is:

Will it be possible to keep my version 2.10 and have version 3.0 running at the same time without conflicts?

If so, how should I proceed (install) when downloading and testing version 3.0?

Thanks for the clarification!

Note: I will probably no longer use the portable version after version 3.0, so my intention is to have version 2.10 in portable mode and version 3.0 in standard mode.

It should be possible to keep both version (if I recall I read it somewhere), and you should have nothing to do. Why? Because profile and plugins will be in the folder 3.0 instead of 2.0
Also look at my config, they are in 2 separate folder, and I did nothing when I installed GIMP 2.99.xx

   

Now, having said that, some-one need to confirm or disaffirm my affirmations

[rich2005]

Yes, that is correct. Windows users can install the Gimp 3 RC1 alongside their existing Gimp 2.10 https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v3.0/windows/

Linux users try out the appimage mentioned in another post. No need to self-compile just to try-out.

The Use profiles are separate as PixLab shows.

See first hand how much you will hate it.

[Krikor]

This is great news. Ever since version 3.0 was announced I've been worried about how to handle it. 

I don't know exactly what this RC1 in front of the version identifier means. (3.0 RC1). But I think the stable version is still 2.10.38. So I'll wait until version 3.0 is a stable version.

Anyway, taking advantage of the post...

I'm not sure what the equivalent screen shot by Pixlab ( /home/patrice/.config/GIMP ) would be for my portable/Windows version.

If I'm not mistaken my Gimp location is at:
---➤> C:\Gimp-2.10.28_Portable_32-64bit-Win

Although I discovered two other folders that I don't know if I can delete them or not. 

So here's another question:

Can the content I found in User/ AppData/ Roaming/ GIMP/ 2.10 and in User/ AppData/ Local/ GIMP/ 2.10/ Crashlog be deleted?

In the first folder, only the folders: filters, internal-data and tool-options have some files. The others are empty.

In the second folder (crashLog), there are 103 files that go from 08/Sep/2022 to 08/Jul/2024.

       


PixLab and rich2005, thank you!