On 3/16/25 2:47 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
Just tried to start gimp-3 for the first time and starting from the menu Graphics->Image Editing->Gimp doesn't do anything. This is apparently due to the prior desktop files have gimp-2.10 in them and now its gimp-3.0.
Ended up starting from the command line, but the tools panel crashes on resize. Just become unresponsive and completely transparent. I was able to crop and image, but crop no longer displays the crop-size when resizing the crop window unless the origin corresponds to 0,0 of the image. You just get the current cursor position displayed in the status bar (not real helpful when trying to crop an image to a particular size not starting at 0,0)
Is there going to be a gimp-2 version preserved? It is quite apparent that gimp-3 attempt to port to gtk3/4 is not fully baked. The tools no longer fit in the tools panel and take about 150% of the space the gimp-2 tools did. The "Export As" png options dialog is all misaligned and looks like all the check- boxes just got crammed together in a box at the bottom. Is this fixable?
What to do about the .desktop files? Any custom menu entries are broken. why not just change to using "gimp"? Let the symlink in /usr/bin from gimp-
gimp-3.0 take care of it?
These were the errors dumped to stderr: (gimp:178973): Gtk-WARNING **: 02:28:35.225: Calling org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit.Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop (gimp:178973): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 02:31:21.102: gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder_file: assertion 'G_IS_FILE (file)' failed (gimp:178973): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:31:21.102: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.