r/GIMP • u/_PersistentRumor • 2d 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/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