GIMP Development
This site tries to provide useful information for developers:
- If you are into resource creation, e.g. plug-in development, you should look at the Resource Development section.
- If you wish to contribute to GIMP itself, you should read the Core Development section.
Note: for the main GIMP website, visit www.gimp.org instead; the GIMP manual is at docs.gimp.org .
GIMP 3.0 roadmap
| Feature | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Port to GTK3 | nearly done | GtkAction→GMenuModel port remaining |
| Port away from intltool | done | We are now full gettext |
| Port to meson build | done | Extensive testing phase. Autotools build still available as fallback |
| Redesign API for scripts/plug-ins | work in progress | GObject Introspection introduced, along with refactoring, no wire protocol redesign in the end, big API improvements still worked on |
| Wayland support | work in progress | Various bugs still happen, especially in window management area (broken sizes and positions), color management… |
| Space invasion | work in progress | Various color management improvements, CMYK support (not as core image format, but import/export and picking/choosing/viewing)… |
| Multi-layer selection | nearly done | Most tools are multi-layer aware, some code still need to be improved (Alignment tool, GEGL filters, plug-in API…) |
| Extensions management | work in progress | Core work mostly done; website and platform still need to be done |
| Paint Select tool | playground | Released as experimental in 2.99.4, needs work |
| Less “floating selection” | nearly done | Discussed on the gimp-gui mailing list , transform tools still create floating selections |