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submitted 2 months ago by user68k@wired.bluemarch.art to c/linux@lemmy.ml

GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 88 points 2 months ago

okay I'll bite, what does "string freeze" mean here?

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 137 points 2 months ago

They've committed to not changing any displayed text ("strings"), so that translators have time to translate everything.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

It means the maintainers have frozen their thongs.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago
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