Per Ell on #gimp:
Ell (IRC)
patdavid_m: the playground is hidden by default for stable releases, but you can enable it with $ gimp --show-playground
matting-levin is part of the Foreground Select tool, I believe.
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I was hoping to check out gegl:matting-levin but it wasn’t there
it’s one of the two matting options in the new Foreground Select tool. You don’t have to enable it in the Playground 
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I only saw one option in the AppImage, did I miss it?
Also, Ell has built Windows binaries.
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I’ve added the missing dependency, and a new package is ready for download.
I have checked, and the “Matting Levin” option is now available on my test system:
@Morgan_Hardwood: could you check if you see it as well?
Thanks!
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I see “Matting Global” and “Matting Levin” here on debian 9.
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Hi,
I am using a quite old AMD Athlon x2 64 system with Windows 10 and have noticed that Partha’s portable build “GIMP 2.10 RC1 64-bit Standard Edition portable” is much faster than the build provided by the installer on the official gimp website.
For example, on a particular image the filter “Olify” finishes with Partha’s build after eight seconds. The official Gimp 2.10 takes about 30 seconds to complete this task. I have used the same image, same filter settings, same bit depth (16-bit) and set the threads to be used to two on both versions.
I didn’t change any of the default settings on both builds as far as I remember.
Personally I am not using Gimp at the moment (just tried it out) but I thought that this information might be helpful.
Best regards!
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Thanks for the feedback @Fridolin! All I can say is that @partha is quite skilled, some I’m sure he’s got some secret sauce to his builds. Maybe he’ll share what that is with us. 
Installed Partha’s version on win7, used the Monkey Business image via darktable, some G’MIC and such, really looks smooth and stable. The AppImage will have to wait till tomorrow. Be well!
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What has to be done to get the DT or RT plugins active?
It should be enough to have the corresponding executable in your path… are you testing in Linux or something else?
I am testing on W10 with Partha’s build and with official build.
It works for Darktable but not for RawTherapee.
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Bonjour,
Following a request I compiled Gimp 2.10.0 RC1.
English translation and specificities :
GimpEval is a bit technical…
:o)
Lucky for us @thcfreak666 you’re reporting all the bugs in the right place with the required info.
You can´t move a single selected object without move the whole layer.
It’s Ctrl+Alt+Drag as usual, then Shift+Ctrl+N to move floating selection to its own layer. Nothing changed.
The “N-Piont deformationtool” is missing too. You have promised that the n-point deformation tool will be available in Gimp 2.10.
No, we specifically said that it will only be available if it’s completed. I personally wrote that in all public channels.
With Gimp 2.10 you have failed again and again since 2.9.6! R.I.P Gimp?
Have we? Good!
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Hi @thcfreak666,
as @patdavid had mentioned the command “–show-playground” I tried it with Partha’s portable build for Windows (W10 in my case). Adding it in a shortcut for “portgimp-2.10-std.exe” enabled the playground. I have checked the n-point tool there and it seems to work correctly.
Best regards!
Sorry to be more direct than usually, but that’s exactly the kind of comment which drives any FOSS developer positively crazy!
Please be positive, propose solutions or, even better, put your hands in the code and contribute if you have the necessary skills.
GIMP is free and developed for free, so, like any FOSS project, it is never a failure by definition.
You cannot exige anything out of it, because you got it for free. And even if you contributed financially to the project in one way or another, this does not represent an engagement for the developers to provide whatever functionality.
A This is a message to all the unhappy users of FLOSS software out here: please stop blaming the developers, and instead be supportive and helpful.
If you are using any of the FOSS tools, it is most likely because you like the philosophy behind open-source software and/or you find it useful, not because anyone has forced you to do so. You have the power to make it even better, so USE IT!!!
– end of my post-Easter rant –
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First and foremost: the stable version of Gimp is 2.8.22 (?). 2.9.6 is a developer or “experimental” version and therefore bugs are part of the deal. Anything with an odd number in the second rank is prone to problems. If you can’t stand the heat, get away from the fire.
Windows 7 is an epic fail with annoying bugs. I know what I talk about, because I have to use a business-notebook with Win7, issued by my employer. The moment I get home and switch my Linux notebook on is always a moment of relief. If any property or feature of any open-source solution doesn’t fit your needs, you are free to look for an alternative solution or contribute.
I fully understand that not everybody can code. Neither is everybody a good car-mechanic or teacher or whatever. You may be one of those people who are good at bookkeeping or work in social services, but you simply never learned to code. OK. Others do that very well and they present the progress of their work in the developer-snapshots like 2.9.5 and so on.
Now you play around with these unfinished “work in progress” program-versions, rant about how and what should be done, but after all: this isn’t for you. You don’t even get your bug-reports correctly filed to the board.
If what you want to say isn’t more beautiful than the silence that surrounds us: don’t say it. Wait for 2.10. If you want to swing-over to a different, maybe even a commercial program: do it - and please don’t forget to claim access to their “work in progress” nightly-builds. I’d like to hear how that went.
I am always astonished how many Germans are here - we might be the #1 nation on this BBS.
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