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Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin


2025-02-12 GIMP 3.0 is almost out, and I'm thrilled. Not only will this version bring new features and improvements, but it finally modernizes the technology stack in two important ways: - It will use GTK 3 - It will use Python 3 This will make it easier and more sustainable to develop plugins for GIMP.

Not only will this version bring new features and improvements, but it finally modernizes the technology stack in two important ways: If you have more resources or tips, feel free to contact me, I'll happily update the article. It currently ships Python 3.11 The C-API documentation is available at https://developer.gimp.org/api/3.0/ The Python API documentation is not yet available to read online, but can be found in a tarball in on the download page: https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v3.0/api-docs/ It is however of limited benefit, since it doesn't contain any information not in the C-API documentation, except for the exact Python-method names, that can be guessed easily form the names for their C counterparts.

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