Hi! On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 12:44 AM Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 04:41 -0800, Lani P. Richards via gimp-user-list > wrote: > > I just bought a 27” 2020 iMac with full SSD (not fusion), 8GB memory, > > AMD Radeon Pro 5300 4 GB, 3.1 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5. > > > > Just drawing with the pen tool has a bunch of lag. This baby can do > > 5120x2880. Still, I cannot smoothly draw in GIMP because of extreme > > lag. What’s going on? > > We have a problem with GIMP on the Big Sur release of the Apple > operating system. We do not have a timeline for a fix - we have a > volunteer who dropped by and said he might look at it less than a month > ago, but i odon't think we've heard back since; We have heard from him and he is quite active, but not so much on the IRC channel, which may be why you get this impression. 🙂 Actually he just released a revision 3 of the DMG (like barely 2 days ago and it was uploaded on download servers yesterday but not on the website yet as we need to wait for mirrors to pick it up). I suggest to anyone with issues to test it (gimp-2.10.22-x86_64-3.dmg): https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.10/macos/ For the record, from feedbacks so far, the revision 2 DMG was already much better on Big Sur, but it turned out it was slower for macOS before Big Sur (for this, the revision 1 was better). Our new macOS contributor thinks that this last revision should be better for everyone. We welcome feedbacks to confirm (or oppositely to refute). > none of the core GIMP > developers are Mac programmers and we rely on volunteers. > Indeed as a general rule, GIMP is fully community-developed and relies on volunteers (whichever the platform even). And more particularly macOS has always been the platform with lowest contributors (even since I started to contribute, this is the only platform where we never managed to get more than 1 active and regular contributor in the same time as I recall). So we really encourage people who like GIMP on macOS to actually participate. This is the only way for support to be actually reliable. Jehan > > > -- > Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list > -- ZeMarmot open animation film http://film.zemarmot.net Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/zemarmot Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
