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Jehan 9a85b74f55 desktop: review our software description.
This is based off ongoing Teams/GIMP/CoreTeam/Discussions#9 discussion
and is meant to take care of worries which were raised in since-reverted
commit c4b4f343d4.

Basically GIMP is not a "toy software" indeed, made to just do quick
one-click edits, such as a quick crop-rotation, or apply common filters
with no options, by finger-swiping, for your social network account. It
is not to say that you cannot do all of this, but this is still part of
a much bigger feature-set, with a lot of advanced options to customize
renders, in a software made for high-end image editing and creation. The
target therefore includes graphics professionals (such as ourselves!),
but not only, which is why the reverted commit was not fine. It can be
amateurs doing high quality work too, and we don't want these creators
and usage to be left out.

The Core Team discussion is about our updated Project Vision. This is an
ongoing discussion which may span for a few more months, possibly until
the next physical meeting of contributors. So far, our Vision is
summarized as one sentence:

> GIMP is Community-driven Free Software for high-end image creation and manipulation.

This sums up several of the main aspects of GIMP: its community and how
it's being created by it, the fact it is Free Software, the fact it
targets high-end creation/manipulation, and the generic aspect of the
type of graphics works (creation or manipulation), because it is not
just about photo retouching.

This commit therefore reuses the current wording in the initial
paragraph of our metadata description. I move one example of such type
of graphics work in the second paragraph and remove the "simple" word,
as it may imply again "toy" and ourselves, as well as many other digital
painters across the world, have proved long ago that this program is not
just to do "simple painting".

This is an update before the RC release (where we will start freezing
strings). Of course, we may update further the text later (when we'll
start working on 3.4 probably), if the Project Vision further evolves.
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.gitlab .gitlab: let's ban AI-generated reports. 2025-11-10 14:47:23 +01:00
.vscode Add .vscode/settings.json compliant with Coding Style 2024-01-19 16:06:06 -03:00
app libgimpwidgets, theme: Group radio buttons together 2025-11-15 02:50:17 +00:00
app-tools app-tools: Port fixes from 89132717 and c79bf579 to gimp-debug-tool 2025-11-08 13:53:41 -03:00
build build/windows: Add dark mode on .exe Installer thanks to Inno 6.6.0 2025-11-11 14:51:09 -03:00
data app, build, plug-ins: Run interpreters conditionally on Windows console 2025-11-09 15:56:32 -03:00
desktop desktop: review our software description. 2025-11-15 11:39:06 +01:00
devel-docs devel-docs: Fix Color Notebook image label 2025-10-17 11:02:57 -03:00
docs docs: Remove old 2.X series references on gimptool manpage 2025-05-09 21:40:06 -03:00
etc app, etc: fix sessionrc from GIMP 3.0 to 3.2. 2025-07-07 20:10:56 +02:00
extensions app, build, plug-ins: Run interpreters conditionally on Windows console 2025-11-09 15:56:32 -03:00
gimp-data@7d5cd21bd2 app: fix splash display in certain conditions. 2025-10-24 02:24:53 +02:00
libgimp widgets, pdb, libgimp: GimpProcedureDialog Image Widget 2025-11-12 03:12:24 +00:00
libgimpbase text, libgimpbase: Move text enums 2025-10-08 11:34:57 +00:00
libgimpcolor app, libgimp*, plug-ins: fix previous commit and add gimp_cairo_surface_get_buffer(). 2025-11-08 20:34:55 +01:00
libgimpconfig libgimpconfig: better error message when a GObject property tries to… 2025-10-24 02:24:53 +02:00
libgimpmath Revert "libgimpmath: #pragma once" 2025-08-14 00:54:50 +02:00
libgimpmodule Declare gexiv2 dependency on many targets (due to gimpmetadata.h) 2025-10-03 18:31:53 -03:00
libgimpthumb Declare gexiv2 dependency on many targets (due to gimpmetadata.h) 2025-10-03 18:31:53 -03:00
libgimpwidgets libgimpwidgets, theme: Group radio buttons together 2025-11-15 02:50:17 +00:00
menus tools: implement restore option for on-canvas text editor ... 2025-10-31 15:39:10 +01:00
modules app, modules: Resolve unused Windows variable warnings 2025-10-12 14:06:04 +00:00
pdb widgets, pdb, libgimp: GimpProcedureDialog Image Widget 2025-11-12 03:12:24 +00:00
plug-ins plug-ins: Mitigate ZDI-CAN-28248 for JP2 images 2025-11-12 13:25:44 +00:00
po Update Slovenian translation 2025-11-13 08:04:30 +00:00
po-libgimp Update Slovenian translation 2025-11-13 08:29:23 +00:00
po-plug-ins Update Slovenian translation 2025-11-13 08:38:42 +00:00
po-python Update Slovenian translation 2025-11-13 08:04:18 +00:00
po-script-fu Update Turkish translation 2025-11-10 19:23:17 +00:00
po-tags Update Chinese (Taiwan) translation 2024-08-20 13:23:23 +00:00
po-tips Update Chinese (China) translation 2025-09-23 00:31:05 +00:00
po-windows-installer po-windows-installer: fix building the pot file. 2025-09-23 12:13:48 +02:00
themes libgimpwidgets, theme: Group radio buttons together 2025-11-15 02:50:17 +00:00
tools Declare gexiv2 dependency on many targets (due to gimpmetadata.h) 2025-10-03 18:31:53 -03:00
.clang-format clang-format: uncomment rule not usable yet. 2025-04-30 23:36:15 +02:00
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.gitlab-ci.yml build/windows: Make possible to build (babl only) with MSVC 2025-10-18 22:30:40 -03:00
.gitmodules .gitmodules: Specify gimp-data branch as 'main' 2025-10-06 13:49:22 -03:00
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AUTHORS AUTHORS: update. 2025-08-14 01:15:04 +02:00
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meson_options.txt libgimp: Output CLI messages to the parent console like Linux and macOS 2025-10-31 17:28:22 -03:00
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README README: small fixes. 2025-11-15 11:18:24 +01:00
README.i18n desktop: change gimp20 to gimp30 for gettext 2024-08-29 09:09:29 +00:00

                   ------------------------------
                   GNU Image Manipulation Program
                       3.2 Release Candidate
                   ------------------------------

This is a release candidate for upcoming version 3.2.0 of GIMP.
This is not considered stable yet, unless testing tells us it is.
Therefore save your work early and often. If you want a stable
version, please use GIMP 3.0 instead.

If you think you found a bug in this version, please make sure that it
hasn't been reported earlier and report it! We are at the verge of
releasing the next minor version of GIMP, so any report helps.

If you want to hack on GIMP, please read the file devel-docs/README.md.
For detailed installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.


1. Web Resources
================

GIMP's home page is at:

	https://www.gimp.org/

Please be sure to visit this site for information, documentation,
tutorials, news, etc. All things GIMP-ish are available from there.

The latest version of GIMP can be found at:

	https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

We also have a website dedicated to documentation at:

        https://docs.gimp.org/


2. Contributing
===============

GIMP source code can be found at:

	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/

Resources for contributors:

        https://developer.gimp.org/

In particular, you may want to look in the "Core Development" section. Some
articles of particular interest for newcomers could be:

* Setting up your developer environment: https://developer.gimp.org/core/setup/
* GIMP Coding Style: https://developer.gimp.org/core/coding_style/
* Submit your first patch: https://developer.gimp.org/core/submit-patch/


3. Discussion Channels
======================

We have several discussion channels dedicated to GIMP user and
development discussion. There is more info at:

        https://www.gimp.org/discuss.html

For the real junkies, there are IRC channels (e.g. #gimp or #gimp-user)
devoted to GIMP on GIMPNet (a private free software oriented network).
Many of the developers hang out there. Some of the GIMPNet servers are:

	irc.gimp.org:6667
	irc.us.gimp.org:6667
	irc.eu.gimp.org:6667

More discussion channels, such as forums, will be listed on the above
"discuss" page when they are moderated by a team member.
Links to archives of former discussion methods (e.g. mailing lists) are
also included in that page.

4. Customizing
==============

The look of GIMP's interface can be customized like any other GTK app
by editing files in `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/gtk-3.0/` (settings.ini and
gtk.css in particular) or by using "themes" (ready-made customizations).
Additionally, GIMP reads `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/GIMP/3.2/gimp.css` so you
can have settings that only apply to GIMP.

You can also manually change the keybindings to any of your choice by
editing: `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/GIMP/3.2/shortcutsrc`.


Have fun,

  Spencer Kimball
  Peter Mattis
  Federico Mena
  Manish Singh
  Sven Neumann
  Michael Natterer
  Dave Neary
  Martin Nordholts
  Jehan