Future plans for the GIMP interface. They plan a single window.
Together with GEGL, this will be killer!
About time! They getting into gear now, about to kick arse.
GIMP’s product vision is that GIMP is or will become a free software high-end graphics application for the editing and creation of originhttp://www.mmiworks.net/pics/blog8/lgmhistoryparade.jpgal images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements.
I am using from months ago (six months?) a Gimp that can do one window but I continue to use the old method of multiple windows. I don’t like one window once you are accustomed to multiple windows.
Currently GIMP team is working on finalizing the new stable v2.8 with many improvements such as layer groups, improved brush dynamics, a new unique transformation tool, optional single-window mode and more.
It doesn’t sound like the feature exists yet.
If so, how can I try it under Ubuntu?
EDIT: it seems you’re talking about something else. This hasn’t been released yet. There’s no builds. Updates are here,
The single window option exist and you can test it in the GIMP 2.7.1 unstable version released 6 months ago and pointed to in the other thread about GIMP.
You can download it at any time and give a test, but be warned that for some reason, at least on Windows, it will remove your current version of GIMP and replace it by this 2.7.1, very annoying, so if you want to test, be sure to back up your plugins and whatever settings.
It is a bit buggy currently, as after activating the option, once you closed GIMP, and relaunched it , GIMP was forgetting that it was in single window mode and went back to floating panels, leading you to reset it correctly each time.
And for now, the docks are stuck with the single window, meaning you can’t move them in a position that would satisfy you better into this single window.
Hopefully it will get better once 2.8 is released.
Hehe Manderson, you strike me as someone who likes the security of knowing you’re using a commercial product. Relax, the freedom is you can use either whenever and however you like to use them.
If I recall correctly, a few years back, Adobe gave a reason they said they were never going to make Photoshop for Linux. Their basic reasoning is that they felt that Open Source users didn’t respect buying things and that they thought it would be pirated out of market. Pretty annoying given that the reason I use Open Source a lot is because I don’t like pirating all the commercial versions like many of my other comrades who’ve never looked to Open Source.
For me, the killer feature I’m looking forward to in Gimp (been literally waiting years for this) is grouped layers (layer folders). I hope they do this and do it right. Being able to put all the skin layers into a “skin” folder and then change the hue of that folder to affect all skin layers in unison is something imo all decent art packages of the Gimp / Photoshop type should have.
Seems like Gimp development crawls at snails pace. Any small change apparently takes years to implement. It still doesn’t even support CMYK. Why is this? Is it because it’s built using a sub-par toolkit (GTK) or is it because they don’t have enough developers? Is it poorly organized?
I’ve seen several entirely good Photoshop alternatives arrive the last few years, while The Gimp is almost unchanged in the last decade. Look at Pixelmator, Acorn, Iris. Even Naked Light (developed by one person) is pretty neat.
that’s planned for the next release… I tried the unstable testing build ages ago and I think I remember it being in that… and it was definately one of the new things to go in the next stable version…
Yay. A slightly different interface. Meanwhile we’re still waiting for features like high bit depth support and colour management that other apps had back in 1996.
It’s a shame to have to be so disparaging of what is probably still the best open source image editor out there. But there it is.
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it’s a good thread but just saying… the top 2 threads on this subforum (right now) are about GIMP and GIMP alone, not how they interact with blender.
and it’s funny that if it was about some other program not as used much by blender people, there would be several people jumping out and savagely attacking the poster.
where post about the gimp team needing help didn’t get the same treatment as some other teams project wanting volunteer help. i just think there are some double standards with some people.
i guess my two points are
i think this thread and the other gimp one should probably be moved on over to the off-topic chat… as it’s a good forum too… a forum that can gently foster the complexities of discussion unrelated to blender.
definitely some double standards happenin.
Edit: It seems the Off-topic chat is about non-blender AND non-cg related talk… so should people post general CG talk on the blender news/discussion forum? i would think in many cases it would be criticized, but not all, which is a problem.i think there could be some better wording, and/or forum structure up in dis joint.
You see, I wasted a good amount of time googling all those apps you mentioned just to find out for myself that none of them are any good to me. I am on dial up as it is, and with stupidly ambiguous names like “iris” and “acorn” which make them difficult to google (isn’t acorn a computer system from the 80’s?), you could have at least done the courteousy of providing some links.
Did you even know one of your mentioned hot programs is already obsolete? No support. No longer exists. Tough luck.
You never mentioned the programs were Mac only. You did not until now mention they were Cocoa. It was more like a hindsight “of course they are Cocoa” like I’d presumably know what that meant (I still don’t).
Mac are really expensive, and need specialist gear to go with them. If their support is like what I get from the Mac evangelist users who assume I must be thick if I don’t automatically know their stuff, then no… I’m not buying in to the Mac market.
Seems like Gimp development crawls at snails pace. Any small change apparently takes years to implement. It still doesn’t even support CMYK. Why is this? Is it because it’s built using a sub-par toolkit (GTK) or is it because they don’t have enough developers? Is it poorly organized?
I have to agree with that.
Compared to the vivacity of the Blender coder team, GIMP is moving sooooo slow…
It is a bit strange really: you’d think it’d be the flagship of open-source development alongside Oo and Blender but, no.
I use it every day and like it a lot. I’ve never used Photoshop though, so I can’t compare.
But even finding a good active GIMP forum isn’t that easy…
Except they are all Mac-only.