A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:
- Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
- New Splash Screen;
- New default settings to maximize space on the canvas;
- Shortcuts similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe’s Documentation;
- New icon and Name from custom .desktop file.
https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/blob/master/screenshots/photogimp_3_-_diolinux.png
Flatpak (Linux)
In order to install the newest version of PhotoGIMP on your Linux operating system using Flatpak, just follow this simple steps:
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Make sure you already have GIMP installed from Flathub; (for Ubuntu/Mint user just select Flatpak below the install button in the manager)
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Start and quit GIMP after you installed before you continue!
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Download the files from this repository or just click here - > https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/releases/download/3.0/PhotoGIMP-linux.zip
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Extract the content of the zip file on your home folder (.config and .local - they are the important ones) and overwrite the files if needed; (if you can’t see the file click Ctrl+H to see hidden files)
-You’re done, enjoy it! 😄
Kate is too bloated to fill the role of Notepad. Kwrite is lighter but like Kate all the shortcuts are different from Notepad and the Gnome Text Editor. Took me three attempts to get the shortcuts right, first because I didn’t save them correctly and second because I missed one of the way too many things you can configure.
Kate and Kwrite make the OOTB experience with KDE bad for new users from anywhere else.
In what way is Kate bloated? You open it up and you get an empty plain text window. You type. Ctrl+S saves. It’s fast and responsive. What more do you want?
You open it you’re greeted with a list of options instead of a blank file ready to use. When you open it again you’ll have 10 open tabs from previous sessions. On the left side you get multiple buttons with coding features … and I think most KDE users aren’t programmers. At the top there are dropdown menus with and most of the hundreds of options there are irrelevant to the non-programmer.
It’s much better to leave these kinds of programming-centric features out of the default text editor. The programmers know how to install something better.
I’m not saying Kate shouldn’t exist, nor that it shouldn’t be installed by default. It just shouldn’t be the default.
Coming from Windows and Notepad++, I love Kate!
I used both Notepad and Notepad++ on Windows, then changed to Linux Mint and used the GNOME text editor which was the perfect middle-ground. Then I changed to KDE and I got hit with the abomination that is Kate.
Is Kate bloated? I’ve never noticed any slowness from it.
It’s not bloated due to speed, but complexity. It has too many features to learn and things like session restore and multiple tabs means interacting with it requires more clicks or keyboard shortcuts. It’s not a good substitute for Notepad or GNOME Text Editor.
That’s because Kate is an IDE, not a note taking app. KWrite is the text editor