I just started seriously looking at this with the 32 bit float and linear stuff.  One person that seems to understand this is here:
https://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography...ed-editing

In particular, part C:
"GIMP 2.9 does provide a number of "unclamped" editing operations from which the clipping code in the equivalent GIMP 2.8 operation has been removed. For example, at floating point precision, the Levels upper and lower sliders, Unsharp Mask, Channel Mixer and "Colors/Desaturate/Luminance" do not clip out of gamut RGB channel values (however, Curves does clip). Also the Normal, Lightness, Chroma, and Hue blend modes do not clip out of gamut channel values."

What blows my mind is that some operations do not clip the rgb values at 100%.  In other words, I can go brighter than white and darker than black and still recover the information.  So it looks like some of the color operations allow this.

For example the exposure, HCL color changer, brightness and contrast, and a few others I think, allow me to blow out the colors and still recover them.

I did it(image) with filters>Distort>Lapping in Inkscape. but can not do like this in Gimp! who can do it?? 

just it is interesting to me how do it can be done in gimp!

original image

I did read that the concentration is on bug fixes up to Gimp 2.10 release, rather than new features.

Still managed to sneak a new dockable in - Gimp Dashboard

   

If you are into big images / lots of layers / high bit depth might come in useful to forewarn of impending disaster

Does GIMP have any kind of spell checking tool/solution for the text tool?
Found nothing in this forum, nothing in the old gimpforum forum, couldn't find any obvious plugins in the plugins repo either.

Young boy goes to his father and asks

'Can I have a BitCoin for Chrismas'

Father says

What! £10,362 ....
£9,760 is a lot of money ....
Why do you want £11,061?

I am using gimp 2.8 on Ubuntu 16.04 with a Wacom Tablet.  The problem is that even after reinstalling Gimp the erase key fails to work.  It continues to paint, say, and refuses to switch to erase.  I can make text boxes and use other tools but the program refuses to switch to erase.  If I change the file .gimp2.8 to gimp2.8delete or something and reinitiate Gimp, erase works for a few minutes and the problem returns.  The problem occurs whether I use the tablet or the mouse.  Any thoughts?

What if I have a selection on one layer and I want to center another layer in the middle of that selection. How would I do that?

I could not find any OSX 2.9.8 version on https://www.gimp.org/downloads/, and I can't find any older version either. Are there any 2.9 versions for mac?

I want to use extended color depth.

Is there a way to do this?  The move tool doesn't work on text layers apparently.
I create a lot of text layers programatically and I don't want to have to use the resize tools afterwards just to move the text around. I want the same dimensions... just placed in a different location.

Does anyone have a any tips or tricks for this?