A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:
- Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
- New Splash Screen;
- New default settings to maximize space on the canvas;
- Shortcuts similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe's Documentation;
- New icon and Name from custom .desktop file.
https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/blob/master/screenshots/photogimp_3_-_diolinux.png
Flatpak (Linux)
In order to install the newest version of PhotoGIMP on your Linux operating system using Flatpak, just follow this simple steps:
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Make sure you already have GIMP installed from Flathub; (for Ubuntu/Mint user just select Flatpak below the install button in the manager)
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Start and quit GIMP after you installed before you continue!
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Download the files from this repository or just click here - > https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/releases/download/3.0/PhotoGIMP-linux.zip
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Extract the content of the zip file on your home folder (.config and .local - they are the important ones) and overwrite the files if needed; (if you can't see the file click Ctrl+H to see hidden files)
-You're done, enjoy it! π
Kate, Geany and Micro are already pretty good.
I'd argue that they're even better than Notepad++. There's certainly no shortage of good text editors on Linux...
Those are all bloat. Just embrace vim.
Kate is too bloated to fill the role of Notepad. Kwrite is lighter but like Kate all the shortcuts are different from Notepad and the Gnome Text Editor. Took me three attempts to get the shortcuts right, first because I didn't save them correctly and second because I missed one of the way too many things you can configure.
Kate and Kwrite make the OOTB experience with KDE bad for new users from anywhere else.
Is Kate bloated? Iβve never noticed any slowness from it.
It's not bloated due to speed, but complexity. It has too many features to learn and things like session restore and multiple tabs means interacting with it requires more clicks or keyboard shortcuts. It's not a good substitute for Notepad or GNOME Text Editor.
That's because Kate is an IDE, not a note taking app. KWrite is the text editor
Keyboard shortcuts? I don't know any and use it effortlessly. Having session restore is a gift. If you don't want stuff open, close. However, if you are regularly going to edit multiple files, having them reopen is far superior. Multiple tabs is far better than multiple windows and much easier to work with a mouse, rather than hover over program and select other window which is slow.
If you prefer alternative good for you, but expecting a text editor to not support sessions in 2025 is bizarre. Do you consider DE's bloat too?
Coming from Windows and Notepad++, I love Kate!
I used both Notepad and Notepad++ on Windows, then changed to Linux Mint and used the GNOME text editor which was the perfect middle-ground. Then I changed to KDE and I got hit with the abomination that is Kate.
I am not sure why you dislike Kate, but that's why we have choices. I personally am a Kate user. I used Notepad and Notepad++ when I was on windows. I looked around for a notepad++ alternative and tried Notepadqq butt stuck with Kate ultimately because it was standard on an KDE machine.
What do you not like about Kate? It's very simple and minimal on the outside but has lots of cool features if you need them. (Just like KDE Plasma)
In what way is Kate bloated? You open it up and you get an empty plain text window. You type. Ctrl+S saves. It's fast and responsive. What more do you want?
You open it you're greeted with a list of options instead of a blank file ready to use. When you open it again you'll have 10 open tabs from previous sessions. On the left side you get multiple buttons with coding features ... and I think most KDE users aren't programmers. At the top there are dropdown menus with and most of the hundreds of options there are irrelevant to the non-programmer.
It's much better to leave these kinds of programming-centric features out of the default text editor. The programmers know how to install something better.
I'm not saying Kate shouldn't exist, nor that it shouldn't be installed by default. It just shouldn't be the default.
I think this may be a configuration issue. I suspect you may have Kate set up very differently from the way I have it.
When I open Kate, I'm greeted with a blank file, ready to use.
When I open it again... I'm greeted with a blank file, ready to use.
On the left side I have four icons that I largely ignore except for the top one which is handy if I have a lot of files open.
At the bottom is the status bar. I may be allowing my privilege to show a little here, but with a 1080p screen, I can afford to lose 50 or so pixels to that.
At the top there's New, Open, Save, Save As, Undo, and Redo.
I'm not saying your configuration of Kate is bad. I'm not even going to claim that my configuration is the default, because I've used it for over a year and a half now and I don't know what the default configuration looks like. What I am saying is that your experience and my experience do not align.