Prokoudine: GIMP 2016 in review

[Posted January 16, 2017 by ris]

Alexandre Prokoudine looks at user-visible changes for the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) over 2016. Changes include better handling of layers, channels, masks, and paths, remembering defaults across sessions, improved configurability, color management, and more.

Prokoudine: GIMP 2016 in review

Posted Jan 19, 2017 13:14 UTC (Thu) by reedstrm (guest, #8467) [Link] (5 responses)

I've been a GIMP user from way back, but my most recent laptop (Dell XPS 15) has caused me significant issues trying to do even basic operations. The reason? A HiDPI screen. Tiny tiny buttons and scrollbars. Using a second, lower res screen to move the toolbox and layers dialogs onto helps some, but still have to try an hit tiny targets on the image itself. Anyone have a solution?

Prokoudine: GIMP 2016 in review

Posted Jan 19, 2017 15:44 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link] (2 responses)

Wow, you are right. I also have a Dell laptop with the 4K screen. It works great for most Gnome apps but the Gimp buttons are super-small.

This looks like a Gimp bug. It's either using GTK2 instead of 3, or it is over-riding the HiDPI scaling and then doing it wrong.

Prokoudine: GIMP 2016 in review

Posted Jan 19, 2017 15:47 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (1 responses)

GIMP is still a GTK 2 application; and GIMP 2.10 will also be a GTK2 application.

Prokoudine: GIMP 2016 in review

Posted Jan 19, 2017 17:49 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

Hmm. There should be a way for GTK-2 apps to discover the display scale and compensate for it. Even if Gnome long ago decided to lie about DPI Gimp could go to XRandR and get the real display information.

Prokoudine: GIMP 2016 in review

Posted Jan 19, 2017 17:54 UTC (Thu) by prokoudine (guest, #41788) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, you can use either Color-32 or Color-48 theme from this repo:

https://bitbucket.org/paynekj/paynekj-gimp-scripts/src/2e...

We certainly want HiDPI fixed upstream (one of the reasons why we have an experimental optional SVG-based icon theme in 2.9.x).

Prokoudine: GIMP 2016 in review

Posted Jan 21, 2017 21:03 UTC (Sat) by reedstrm (guest, #8467) [Link]

Cool, thanks for the pointer, I'll try that right away.