11-25-2024, 01:12 AM
(11-24-2024, 10:25 PM)Tas_mania Wrote: Thanks for that list ofnuts, 'ldd' command is useful for discovering deps.
We got Gimp making appimages
At the present time I will not longer develop my Gimp3 appimages because the Gimp team (Bruno) is churning them out on the artifacts page. At least we got the Gimp team making appimages
If you are serious about staying current with Gimp why would you not get software from Gimp source code?
Not too difficult actually, if you are on a recent distro. There is only a bit of a chase of the required packages to install before it build without errors;
(11-24-2024, 10:25 PM)Tas_mania Wrote: I've looked at the project in some detail and I think it's massive. The process of generating appimages also produces flatpacks but only flatpacks are on the downloads page. That could be because flatpacks are more likely to work on all linux distros while the appimages are under development.
Gimp 3 is a good example of modern software development - the Windows and OSX issues are being addressed fully even though there is proprietary code that has to be adapted to. Networking is fully integrated into Gimp3 even though there are few plug-ins that do networking. (like send by email) They are thinking long term.
I suspect there is quite a bit of funding going into this project but no further comment.
Not that much AFAIK. I don't see that many "core" developpers;
(11-24-2024, 10:25 PM)Tas_mania Wrote: Contradictions
I'm interested in how contradictions are resolved. I see some very intelligent people rolling the dice on a mountain of contradictions. Open source that runs on closed source on multiple platforms in multiple languages in a World that appears intent on self-harm. Gimp is also a gui interface (gtk) and libs used by an entire programming ecosystem.
Non-destructive layer effects
A lot of people are talking about this but if you duplicate a layer and work on the duplicate you have 'non-destructive layer effects' or don't you?
This is a different thing. Assume you want to apply a saturation increase and a sharpening in that order. If you copy the layer and do saturation+sharpen but then discover you want to tweak the saturation, with Gimp 2.10 you re-start from scratch. With Gimp3, you edit the saturation step and while you push the sliders in the Saturation tool you see the results of the saturation+sharpening in real time.