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GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 months ago by user68k@wired.bluemarch.art to c/freesoftware@lemmy.zip

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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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[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is string freeze?

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

The purpose of a String Freeze is to give translators enough time to translate all the strings in the application. During the String Freeze all user-visible strings are frozen and must not change; if they do change then some part of the translation work has been in vain.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

This might be the release of the decade