Gimp Themes and Plugins

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Is there any provision for themes in Gimp 3 - there used to be plenty for 2.10 but they broke after 2.10.22.

Also will Gimp plugins be possible to make in Chatgpt? If the script language is based on a popular language, I believe chatgpt will cover it.

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Is there any provision for themes in Gimp 3 - there used to be plenty for 2.10 but they broke after 2.10.22.

Most themes are community-provided, so give the community some time to adopt Gimp3 and work on themes. By the way did you try to ask ChatGPT for a theme? After all a good deal of the theme (the gtkrc file) is just text?

Also will Gimp plugins be possible to make in Chatgpt? If the script language is based on a popular language, I believe chatgpt will cover it.

You can already write scripts for Gimp v2.x in Python which is a quite popular language, however:

  • From I have seen so far, Gimp scripts written by ChatGPT are pretty much a hit-or-miss thing (ChatGPT doesn’t understand how Gimp works, it can just fake it close enough at times). And when you understand why the ChatGPT-provided script doesn’t work, you are skilled enough to write your own directly.
  • ChatGPT isn’t going to read the Gimp v3 docs and work from that. It has been trained with a corpus of existing code and imitates it. And so far the corpus of Gimp v3 script code is pretty small. In fact I suspect that for quite some time ChatGPT will try to convince you that this code for Python 2.7 and Gimp v2 ought to work fine on your Gimp v3, because all the code it sees is still for Gimp v2 and it is not “aware” that Gimp 3 is now in fashion.
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Chatgpt 4o and Perplexity can read the internet and absorb documents as long as its like 24MB or less for a PDF. so might it work. But I wouldn’t know how to fix it if it didn’t work properly. Have Gimp 3 docs been published yet?

Thanks!

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The API documentation is auto-published each time they produce a nightly build. But the LLMs don’t read the docs, they just imitate code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

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I would suggest just learning Python.

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@seethru Do you use a Linux distro with a GTK-based DE? If yes, most of the custom GTK themes for the system should work out-of-the-box with GIMP 3.

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This 100%. I tried using ChatGPT for some coding, and it usually suggested obsolete incompatible spaghetti code - unless I did my research first and fed it step by step, detailed instructions. Also, it was very bad at doing online research, often returning outdated or just plain incorrect answers. Microsoft’s Copilot had similar issues. It definitely can help speed up coding if you know what you’re doing, proceed carefully, and spoonfeed instructions. In any case never blindly trust ChatGPT (or any AI) results, always verify them.