![]() If you need to move many layers to a layer group, you want this. ![]() ![]() One major change in the unstable series is the long anticipated support for multiple layers selection. Other than that, do not expect any major performance enhancements just yet. This basically means you get much snappier navigation which is essential when you work on large projects with a lot of layers. So when you zoom in on your project and you pan around, GIMP doesn’t have to rebuild all that for each new pixel that appears in the viewport. (Features Coffee Run poster by Hjalti Hjálmarsson, CC-BY 4.0.) What it does is basically create a bitmap out of everything you see on the display: the projection of all layers, any display filters you might be using, the selection cue, if there is one, and so on. However, the unstable series now features render caching. This is mostly not on the GIMP’s side anyway, it’s up to the GEGL library which is the image processing engine. There are no changes to make, for example, filters work faster. So in terms of user interface in this particular unstable release, it’s up to you to decide which one is more important to you: decent HiDPI support in terms of icons on a 4K display or the size of other widgets like sliders and spinboxes. This was discussed in developers’ chat and the agreement seems to be that this can be remedied by introducing a small variation of the user interface theme. With GTK3-based version, you simply don’t see as much of the content that you can preview on the canvas.Īnd if you look at the height of the sliders, it’s really not as good as what you know from the stable series on a HiDPI display. …and here it is from the stable branch based on GTK2. To give you more idea, here is the window of the Convolution Matrix filter from the unstable branch… Users with touch displays might disagree with me though. It’s probably okay for simple desktop applications but it’s just horrible for cases like GIMP where these buttons occupy the space that would be otherwise used for showing more of the actual content. This will be evident, for example, in the updated slider widget where you get minus and plus buttons right next to the slider. I also don’t really like numeric controls in GTK3. ![]() Toolbox icons are not tiny, brush previews are not tiny and so on.Īlthough, right now all I have here is a smaller HiDPI display, 2560 by 1440 pixels, and everything looks kinda huge to me, even with fractional scaling. If you have a FullHD laptop and an external HiDPI display and you use GIMP on both of them, you should be fine as well. Simply put, if you have a 4K display, you should be fine now. The most important difference is that the unstable version of GIMP handles HiDPI displays vastly better because the support is built right into the user interface toolkit and thus there is no need to add ugly hacks. ![]() The new unstable series is based on a newer version of the user interface toolkit called GTK. This is partially true and partially false. So let’s talk about major differences.įor some reason, there’s a popular opinion that GTK3, the user interface toolkit, is going to right many wrongs for GIMP in terms of user interface. GIMP 2.99.2 has been released and it actually comes with changes that are not available in the stable series which is 2.10. Here is my obligatory disclaimer that I’m affiliated with the GIMP project, so you should take anything I say about it with a grain of salt. ![]()
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