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      They’ve been completely dropping the ball for years. I used to donate regularly but have completely given up on this project. It’s a farce at this point.

      Thankfully I only have simple needs so Krita suffices and I don’t have to deal with the never-improving UX nightmare and never-releasing changes.

      Yeah, I’m salty. It’s just that GIMP was a shining star of FOSS and it’s just been slowly rotting from inaction.

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        They’ve been completely dropping the ball for years. I used to donate regularly but have completely given up on this project. It’s a farce at this point.

        Liberapay shows the number of donors has almost doubled in the last few months (look at “view income history”), so i hope it is an indication that they made good changes to the project management and the future will be better.

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      The reasons are made clear on their roadmap.

      The GTK3 port is done, and now they need to finalize the new extension API and improve their color space support (particularly CMYK). It would be nice if Wayland had a color management protocol extension standardized by then, but I don’t think it’s a blocker.

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        I’ve switched to Gimp 2.99 with GTK3 from Debian Experimental.
        Seems stable and bug-free (if a little sluggish) so far.

        Edit: Just checked their site. Quote from the release notes of the first 2.99.x release:

        The vast majority of the work has already been done. What remains now is the final stroll.

        That was 3 years ago.