https://discuss.pixls.us/t/gimp-3-0-fin ... dule/40597

Jehan Pages who is the lead developer and maintainer of GIMP made an announcement on Patreon yesterday. GIMP 3.0 is tentatively scheduled for release in May 2024. The plan is to announce the release at the next Libre Graphics Meeting conference in France. There is a page that details the roadmap.

Thank's for the info sallyanne. I like progress so 'out with the old in with the new'. I wonder what python support will look like? Gimp3 was supposed to have python3.

Great news.
At the same time equivalent to the announcement of the death of all plug-ins as known today.
No one seems to have in mind a "code conversion" from gimp 2.10 to Gimp 3. Nor to python 3.
No one seems to think at a PDB for Gimp 3.
I hope at least on an interface between Gimp 3 and G'MIC plug-ins.

I've been aware of this since last month and made a post on it with negative complaints as it should not have taken this long.
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That is why I make GEGL plugins but no one else does it.

Perhaps Wallace can do an ostrich emoji for me!

Can this be useful?

EDIT:

Oops, I realize that my sentence is not clear: The "this" word links to a post I made to propose a tiny gimpfu for GIMP 3 (that manages pdb a little)

Lloyd Konneker seems to experiment with a GIMP-Fu for GIMP 3.x here:
https://github.com/bootchk/GimpFu-v3
looks interesting, but I haven't tried that myself yet.
And if it were only something intermediate to keep old plug-ins alive until they are replaced by "real" GIMP3 plug-ins.

Another of the 'old-timers' who is at least looking at up-dates
https://github.com/akkana/gimp-plugins/ ... ster/gimp3

First rough documentation is available here:
https://testing.docs.gimp.org/2.99/en/g ... orial.html

Thanks, Nelo.
Saved as .pdf for future reference.

Thanks Nelo. The article is helpful.

Thanks for this, at least there's ways to write plug-in.
I wonder if there'll be a pdb browser? or some huge doc of all the things you can call.
or I saw this line
return [ "jb-plug-in-first-try" ] in example
I wonder if that's what other plug-ins can use to call each other or not.

trandoductin Hi! There's still a PDB browser just like in 2.10.

You can see an example of how plug-ins can call each other in C here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/b ... ad.c#L1764
It's the TIFF plug-in calling the PSD plug-in to load PSD-specific metadata like guides and layers.

There's a similar example for Python plug-ins where the OpenRaster importer calls the PNG plug-in to load an image: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/b ... er.py#L168

Once 2.99.18 is out (little bit of a delay but should be in the next week or so), we'll begin focusing on bugfixes, regressions, and improving documentation for users and plug-in developers.

I find the foggify plug-in (of GIMP 2.99 of course) a good help to begin with.
Also this little reference here gives a bit of an idea:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/b ... b-calls.md

Great news!

[quote="nelo"]I find the foggify plug-in (of GIMP 2.99 of course) a good help to begin with.
/quote]
I don't have GIMP 2.99
Could you post here the "famous" foggify? Thanks

dinasset It's the Fog plug-in that's also in 2.10. The code for the 2.99/3.0 version is available in the GIMP repository here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/b ... foggify.py

Sure
This one from the 2023-12-31 nightly

Thanks !

I'll wait until whatever GIMP version needs this new syntax gets pushed to gimp download main site.