If I had to guess when GIMP will be native GTK 4 I'd say no sooner than five years, more likely it'll be 10. By the time GIMP runs on GTK 4 we'll be working with GTK 5 or 6.
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I believe Inkscape is still working towards GTK4, but yes they are much farther ahead, to be expected when there are more developers active, after all.
GTK has long outgrown GIMP, it's much more general purpose now, though the acronym remains. Who knows, maybe it'll be renamed to GTK Toolkit in full MIT hacker style one day
It's the GNOME ToolKit now
Who cares? I am fine with the way it is, I am just going to be annoyed with the UI being updated anyways. I am still annoyed by the thunderbird update cause now dark reader takes a second to give me dark mode emails.
Dark reader works? I am using dark background light text and that doesnt work, also some addons are not yet in the Thunderbird store. I can recommend ublock origin with custom *.zip *.mov filters, essential
Thunderbird got better, even though advanced filters are now gone? Not sure when.
But modern Toolkits are important especially for Wayland support
Ok I admit I never thought about using ublock on thunderbird but it sounds interesting, could you explain what advantages it and those filters give? As far as I know TB already blocks some elements within emails for security and privacy purposes
Yes Adblocking is often not needed and may slow down your TB. But people putting filenames with *.mov and *.zip in them would mean you click them and actually open URLs, as these are now registered TLDs. A very stupid idea of Google