gimp-appimage VS kImageAnnotator

And the issue report about getting this into the official build - at the time this one was filed, this wasn't GitLab CI yet, though this came up during the discussion - is here: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/issues/9

From here: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/ I would suggest trying this the last of the stable https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/download/continuous/GIMP\_AppImage-release-2.10.22-withplugins-x86\_64.AppImage Nothing since then. I do not know what happened to Carmelo, hope he is ok I know this works with kubuntu 20.04, you do need to to downgrade to fuse2

Appimage?

The flatpak Gimp is excellent for the majority of Gimp linux users. It is sandboxed, and to certain extent therefore limited. An example, just a few posts away, is connecting to a scanner using XSane - just not going to work unless someone makes a flatpak xsane Gimp plugin. An appimage is a little more libel, a little hands-on tweaking and most things work. Another advantage is multiple versions, want to easily run a Gimp 2.10.08 appimage (last time n-point deformation worked) or Gimp 2.10.14 (last time seamless clone worked) or a current Gimp 2.99 dev version, then it is possible providing these are available as appimages. End of the day, up to you. Years ago I used to make pre 2.10 appimages from a now defunct 'buntu PPA. Believe me it is not easy. The packages from https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/ are really clever, using bits from various distros. Sadly Carmelo seems to have vanished, and the packages stalled. I do hope he is ok.

appimage from https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage working fine

You'll have to grab an appimage build elsewhere, I'm afraid (https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases looks a little out of date). Someone would need to contributed a recipe for our CI to make those officially.

GIMP 2.10.22 = Very fine open source raster graphics editor.I also recommend putting PhotoGIMP or putting mine configuration files inside ".config/GIMP-Appimage/2.10" it will add Photoshop like extensions to it. You can install through appimage, download from here (please download GIMP_AppImage-release-2.10.22-x86_64.AppImage).

The GIMP AppImage is not maintained by the GIMP developers, so it is an "unofficial" package. The person behind this project is Andrea Ferrero, a well-respected member of PIXLS.US community. There are several versions of this AppImage, and the one I recommend is GIMP_AppImage-git-2.10.25-20210610-withplugins-x86_64.AppImage - it is about 3/4 down the listing. https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous

I found an AppImage version which includes support for python 2.7 but I have no clue how to install `numpy` on that image.

Previously Spectacle used the kImageAnnotator library for the annotation function, so when that library got cropping support Spectacle got it too. For better or worse the new UI no longer uses that library, so I'm guessing the Spectacle devs will have to add in cropping support manually now. No clue if there are plans for it unfortunately, but I assume if work gets started on it there will be an update on that bug report.

It's available as a library (https://github.com/ksnip/kImageAnnotator), additionally you can use the --edit-existing flag with Spectacle to edit arbitrary existing images.

Yeah, it's really good. You can thank the author of https://github.com/ksnip/kImageAnnotator/!

That's just the last change that made it to 0.6.0, the actual difference is more like this.

Cropping in Spectacle will only appear when kImageAnnotator 0.6.0 gets released, as noted in the bug report.

I actually just learned about Ksnip, because I first wanted to recommend you KDE Spectacle, but I noticed it didn't show a crop tool. I discovered Spectacle uses Ksnip's kImageAnnotator for editing and thus discovered Ksnip. Somehow Ksnip does show a crop button and other features that are not enabled in Spectacle. I think I like Spectacle more for quickly taking a screenshot, while Ksnip seems nice to have for a quick edit.