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GIMP 3.0.0 tagged (gitlab.gnome.org)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26951027

Draft Release Notes: https://testing.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html

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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wayland is nearly done playing catchup, work should dramatically accelerate, the great transition is finally almost over.

All that's left to get wayland to feature parity with x at this point is an accessibility protocol (which should also allow xdotool stuff to work), gnome is working on one. Once that's done and released, a bunch of devs will be freed up to work on new stuff.

If we're being nitpicky there's also these two:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/216

which will add a proper protocol for global shortcuts (right now the compositors that have implemented it have implemented it with a hack, instead of a proper protocol, extremely minor since pretty much everyone has already functionally figured this out)

and the window positioning protocol:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/18

the last few years of linux development have essentially been defined by technical debt, we're finally about to shake off those shackles.