Call for testing: GIMP

rpadovani · May 6, 2018, 11:46am

On Ubuntu 18.04, fresh installation, the theme integration doesn’t work for me:

▶ snap info gimp
name:      gimp
summary:   GNU Image Manipulation Program
publisher: snapcrafters
contact:   https://github.com/snapcrafters/gimp/issues
license:   unknown
description: |
  Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist,
  GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can
  further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization
  options and 3rd party plugins.
commands:
  - gimp
snap-id:   KDHYbyuzZukmLhiogKiUksByRhXD2gYV
tracking:  stable
refreshed: 2017-12-11T17:39:25+01:00
installed:   2.8.22 (30) 142MB -
channels:                
  stable:    2.8.22 (30) 142MB -
  candidate: 2.8.22 (30) 142MB -
  beta:      2.8.22 (30) 142MB -
  edge:      2.8.22 (33) 151MB -

lucyllewy · May 8, 2018, 12:35am

progress on 2.10.0 (getting close now - just waiting on the fixed snapcraft to be released so that I can build on the buildservice) If you have amd64 installation you can try it with snap refresh --edge gimp (or not, the upload just failed):

andy · May 8, 2018, 6:15am

Edge channel still on build 33 for now. Thank you for your efforts, this will be great.

lucyllewy · May 8, 2018, 12:05pm

We’ve just pushed a candidate snap to the store. Could you try running sudo snap refresh --candidate gimp if you have it installed, or sudo snap install --candidate gimp if you don’t, and try it out. Please report back your experiences.

ogra · May 8, 2018, 12:13pm

runs fine here on 16.04 … i see a bit more whining than there was with 2.8 when starting it from terminal …

pixel · May 8, 2018, 12:21pm

seems to work fine for now (Ubuntu 16.04, intel something)

pachulo · May 8, 2018, 8:38pm

Starting & working fine here in Ubuntu 16.04.4!

andy · May 9, 2018, 4:40am

After first run, when it complains that it has to make certain folders for storing config files, everything seems to load up well. The TWO thing that don’t work seem to be the MyPaint brushes, and the system theme (communitheme in my case). I’m sure that the MyPaint brushes could be configured, but since my practice is nearly all photographic (and very low on the manipulation), I don’t know the first thing about where to find them and/or copy them to (from the PPA or flatpak versions I also have installed). There’s also a lot of error reporting about not finding some icons or whatever, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem.

It’s amazing, everything works, really everything. Tested memory-exhausting images, heavy operations (with the various new Warp tools that used to just blow up immediately). It’s all nearly perfect already.

Edit: forgot, 18.04, communitheme session on X.

bashfulrobot · May 9, 2018, 5:10am

I just installed:

snap-id:   KDHYbyuzZukmLhiogKiUksByRhXD2gYV
tracking:  edge
refreshed: 2018-05-08T04:33:22-07:00
installed:   2.10.0 (37) 217MB -

And

cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"

So far so good. But will put it through it’s paces tomorrow.

From a Gimp POV - man - it has come a long way.

sergiusens · May 9, 2018, 11:51am

Works fine here on Ubuntu 18.04LTS, but I do not get an application icon to launch (once launched, the dock displays the icon correctly).

core,

sergiusens@mirkwood:~$ snap info core
name:      core
summary:   snapd runtime environment
publisher: canonical
contact:   snappy-canonical-storeaccount@canonical.com
license:   unknown
description: |
  The core runtime environment for snapd
type:      core
snap-id:   99T7MUlRhtI3U0QFgl5mXXESAiSwt776
tracking:  stable
refreshed: 2018-04-29T15:29:48-03:00
installed:   16-2.32.6                (4571) 90MB core
channels:                                    
  stable:    16-2.32.6                (4571) 90MB -
  candidate: 16-2.32.6                (4571) 90MB -
  beta:      16-2.32.6                (4571) 90MB -
  edge:      16-2.32.6+git714.a2cbb7f (4630) 91MB -

gimp,

sergiusens@mirkwood:~$ snap info gimp
name:      gimp
summary:   GNU Image Manipulation Program
publisher: snapcrafters
contact:   https://github.com/snapcrafters/gimp/issues
license:   unknown
description: |
  Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist,
  GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can
  further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization
  options and 3rd party plugins.
commands:
  - gimp
snap-id:   KDHYbyuzZukmLhiogKiUksByRhXD2gYV
tracking:  candidate
refreshed: 2018-05-08T08:33:22-03:00
installed:   2.10.0 (37) 217MB -
channels:                
  stable:    2.10.0 (37) 217MB -
  candidate: 2.10.0 (37) 217MB -
  beta:      ↑                 
  edge:      2.10.0 (37) 217MB -

release,

sergiusens@mirkwood:~$ cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

desktop file,

sergiusens@mirkwood:~$ cat /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/gimp_gimp.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=GNU Image Manipulation Program
GenericName=Image Editor
Comment=Create images and edit photographs
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/gimp_gimp.desktop /snap/bin/gimp %U
Icon=/snap/gimp/37/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/gimp.png
Terminal=false
Categories=Graphics;2DGraphics;RasterGraphics;GTK;
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=image/bmp;image/g3fax;image/gif;image/x-fits;image/x-pcx;image/x-portable-anymap;image/x-portable-bitmap;image/x-portable-graymap;image/x-portable-pixmap;image/x-psd;image/x-sgi;image/x-tga;image/x-xbitmap;image/x-xwindowdump;image/x-xcf;image/x-compressed-xcf;image/x-gimp-gbr;image/x-gimp-pat;image/x-gimp-gih;image/tiff;image/jpeg;image/x-psp;application/postscript;image/png;image/x-icon;image/x-xpixmap;image/svg+xml;application/pdf;image/x-wmf;image/jp2;image/jpeg2000;image/jpx;image/x-xcursor;

Lvaskz · May 9, 2018, 3:01pm

Hi, i noticed gimp 2.10 snap comes only in english language. Can you give it some other translations?, I am using spanish language.

tom · May 9, 2018, 11:10pm

Works well from what I can tell, except screengrabs which are just black.

bashfulrobot · May 11, 2018, 3:57pm

This is odd:

snap info gimp
name:      gimp
summary:   GNU Image Manipulation Program
publisher: snapcrafters
contact:   https://github.com/snapcrafters/gimp/issues
license:   unknown
description: |
  Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP
  provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance
  your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party
  plugins.
commands:
  - gimp
snap-id:   KDHYbyuzZukmLhiogKiUksByRhXD2gYV
tracking:  stable
refreshed: 2018-05-08T06:44:28-07:00
installed:   2.10.0 (38) 217MB -
channels:                
  stable:    2.10.0 (38) 217MB -
  candidate: 2.10.0 (38) 217MB -
  beta:      ↑                 
  edge:      2.10.0 (38) 217MB -

States V 2.10

sudo snap install gimp

Then in the about menu it shows GIMP 2.8.16 as does the splash screen.

And then:

gimp --version
GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.8.16

So is maybe the snapcraft.yaml pulling the wrong version? Or is the versioning incorrect on the snap itself?

ogra · May 11, 2018, 4:06pm

do you have the deb installed and are accidentially starting the wrong thing ?

bashfulrobot · May 11, 2018, 4:16pm

what the… why the heck would my work machine have that installed? (And yes it did). Off to check the deployment template.

 gimp --version
GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.10.0

Sorry about the noise.

=========
/me opens ticket to get the guys to clean up the deployment template.

lucyllewy · May 11, 2018, 4:31pm

damn those IT wonks!

emanuc · May 13, 2018, 6:10pm

It is only available in English, not in Italian or in other languages.

andy · May 22, 2018, 2:40am

New on --edge is 2.10.2, got a lovely dialogue which alerted me to the fonts in ~/.fonts/ that weren’t loaded (“GIMP Message: Some fonts failed to load”, and then lists the files). However, I can still use all the fonts fine.

papibe · May 23, 2018, 5:51pm

Hi all,

gthumb (image browser) was able to display thumbnails for XCF files from the previous gimp snap. Now with 2.10, it is not able to.

I wonder if any can recommend me a way to browse XCF files (like they were pics). A plug-in? another image browser?

Thanks in advance.

dshimer · June 4, 2018, 12:00pm

Running 18.04 had performed a normal snap install and pinned the snap version to my favorites. Noticed that 2.10.02 was available in the edge channel so tried a
sudo snap switch --channel=edge gimp
then did a refresh. I haven’t done a massive amount of testing but it seems to have worked flawlessly.