OK, so the new compact style for that widget changes a lot. And the height of the widget was so large that for tools with a lot of options like the Paintbrush, people had to scroll up and down to move around settings all the time. The numeric input field simply got in the way. The vertical separation into small and default increment was not very discoverable for new users and not all that convenient to experienced users. But seriously, the old slider sucked so much even though it was actually added to improve the user experience. Now, I know I’m a GIMP contributor and I’m supposed to be fighting for all its quirks to the death. The next change that is very much visible is the new compact style for the sliders. Smoother brush outline motion on the canvas The team is looking forward to improving this further in the GTK3-based version of GIMP where it could be possible to use CSS to customize icon themes, similarly to how it works in upcoming Inkscape 1.0 version. The customization interface is right where it was: on the Icon Theme page of the Preferences dialog. So this is a temporary workaround for people who want a bit more punch in the toolbox. There have been numerous reports that the new default symbolic icon theme doesn’t have enough contrast. And since there had to be some replacement for it to make docking obvious, GIMP will now highlight dockable areas when you start dragging a dockable dialog.Īnd then the next change quite a few people might like is a higher-contrast variation of the symbolic icon theme. The changes will show up in the toolbox immediately.īy the way, if customized GIMP to only show the toolbox at the left side, this message here probably used to annoy you a lot.
Or you can make your own groups and reorganize tools the way you like it by just picking and then dragging tools around. Now, you can disable this feature entirely by ticking off the checkbox that says “Use tools groups”.
So while these are the new defaults, you can go ahead and customize the hell out of this feature.įor that, go to Edit > Preferences > Interface > Toolbox. I know from reading the feedback that people generally cheered on this change, but not everyone agreed. The overall effect is that the toolbox looks cleaner, especially when you don’t dock any dialogs below. So are Warp Transform and Cage Transform, as they both are what I would call local transformation tools.
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Free Select, Scissors, and Foreground Select are grouped together, as they have interaction similarities. Instead of cramming all tools into groups like Selection and Transformation, Ell took a better approach and made several groups for both based on the kind of interaction they rely on. Another, not quite discoverable way to change a tool in a group is to hover the group and then scroll the mouse wheel. To open the list of tools, left-click and hold or just right-click. That is because tools are now logically grouped by default, just like in some other image editors that you might have used in the past.
The first thing you are going to notice immediately is that the toolbox got smaller. The new version is especially exciting because it fixes quite a few gripes people had with GIMP. Which is a lot better that having to wait for 4 to 6 years. Which is why we’ve seen major improvements coming to end-users on a regular basis just several months apart. Now, as you probably know, starting with the 2.10 series, new features are allowed into stable releases.
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