r/GIMP • u/_PersistentRumor • 1d ago

Is Anyone Else Frustrated With 3.0?

I'm an amateur, at best, but it seems much harder to do very easy things. Something as simple as linking layers so I can move them together seems to have become much harder to do. I know it could be me, but this update, long in the making, seems to be a step backwards for some functions.

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u/Decembered 1d ago

I kept 2.10 along with 3.0. Kudos to devs for the ability to select the whole stack of layers. Sadly, the old CF of the built-in browser saw no improvement.

Loading time is much longer in 3.0, and Waterpixels filter option, notoriously slowish in 2.10, consumed my laptop entire memory and crashed the system in 3.0, although the image was like 2k x 2k, not that big.

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u/st_aranel 6h ago

How do you keep running both versions? I'd like to try that!

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u/Decembered 5h ago

I'm on Windows, and had no problems installing 3.0 along the 2.10. G'Mic addon required a separate install for 3.0, however

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u/st_aranel 5h ago

So you just install 3.0, and it works fine alongside the old version? (It doesn't uninstall the old version first?)

I don't know what G'MIC is, so possibly I don't need it. (I mean, I looked it up, and it looks like a plug-in that does filters? But I don't use very many filters.) But it makes sense that if the new version is living in a new place, as it were, it would need new copies of your plugins.

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u/Decembered 4h ago

3.0 has been installed and works fine alongside the previous version - 2.10.38 - and I wasn't prompted to uninstall the older one fortunately. As of plugins, actually the default installation and G'MIC plugin cover most of my needs. And yes, G'MIC is a plugin that extends the filters capabilities of GIMP, but also has some important and useful tools for colour editing like CLUTs, color presets, film emulation etc.

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u/schumaml GIMP Team 1d ago

What built-in browser are you referring to?

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u/Decembered 1d ago

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u/schumaml GIMP Team 1d ago

Ah, the file dialogs.

This will likely only change once we move to GTK 4. The issue report to subscribe to for updates is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/1830