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GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule (librearts.org)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

why

[–] interceder270 -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cause gnome has been on a steady decline ever since gnome3.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
  1. Gnome is a DE, GTK is a GUI toolkit
  2. I would NOT say it has been on decline. It's pretty good for its target. There also hasn't been any regressions I can see except for the obvious Nautilus. (I use MATE, but mostly because of its looks)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The G in GTK literally comes from GIMP

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
  1. Not anymore
  2. GIMP ≠ GNOME by a fucking mile
  3. GTK isn't from GNOME either
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What do you mean "not anymore"? You can't rewrite history... The G in GTK comes from GIMP. It was formerly called GIMP ToolKit.

I was replying to the comment thread suggesting they should switch to Qt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ah, well you probably should've replied to the root then.

By not anymore, I precisely mean that it's not "GIMP ToolKit" anymore, it's just GTK with no meaning at all.