Hello, I made this thread to talk about python2's deprecation and how that can negatively effect Gimp users. I am really excited about Gimp 3's GEGL improvements, multilayer selection, GTK3 for HDMI scaling, and new "paint select wand". But I am not happy that they are deprecating python2 scripts. This is going to break 95% or more of the alpha to logo and script fu and stuff the Gimp community has made over the last fifteen years. In my personal case, Resynthesizer and a few script fus to bevel, chisel and outline grids are the only things that I am in danger of losing. And I am extremely worried about Resynthesizer as that will do severe damage to the Gimp community if it is lost.

I know some people here love specific scriptFU stuff like alpha to logo shenanigans. So I just made this thread to ask if we can find a hack to run python2 stuff in Gimp 3 or if anyone is up for porting py2 scripts to py3. I can also keep you guys updated on Resynthesizer's porting to py3 here. https://github.com/bootchk/resynthesize ... precations

This has already happened for Ubuntu users I think?
I would like to see a python3 code checker script. Something that would highlight deprecated code.

If you run "gimp --verbose" you will see tons of scripts that would be in error on Gimp 3. I suppose porting py2 scripts to py3 would be ideal. Don't look at me, because I can't code my way out of a paper bag. I guess it would be a good idea to keep a copy of Gimp 2.10x appimage just in case.

I am going to make a personal flatpak of Gimp 2.10.2X (last version). From what I understand, Appimage will not bundle the python2 libraries. Only Flatpak can do stuff like that. It will need a python2 runtime though.

No, Appimages for version 2.10.x contain python2 libraries already.

Porting general Python2 stuff to Python3 isn't hard, there are even programs for that. However,

1) The Gimp API has changed somewhat
2) AFAIK the auto-generated dialogs are no longer available (so script authors will have to invest a lot more time to write an UI)
3) This could also mean that Gimp is no longer distributed with a Python runtime

But all in all, sticking to Python2 is a dead end, I wish Gimp moved to Python3 (while keeping the same interface) ages ago.

@racer-x

I have been testing the Gimp Appimages with Plugins and I can't get resynthesizer's heal to work.

I use the appimage without plugins, but it shouldn't mater. This resyntheser plugin was compiled by rich2005. Unpack and put it in your: /home/user/.config/GIMP-AppImage/2.10/plug-ins/ folder. It works fine here.

I tried and it is not working on my Gimp appimage, despite detecting it. Resyth's heal simply does not work. I go to >Enhance and select Heal and nothing happens.

https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-ap ... 4.AppImage

You're obviously doing something wrong. I can't see what you are doing, so I can only guess. Did you make your selection before running the filter?