1. Web Resources

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               GNU Image Manipulation Program
                     3.2 Stable Branch
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This is a stable release in the GIMP 3.2 series.

If you think you found a bug in this version, please make sure that it hasn't been reported earlier and report it!

If you want to hack on GIMP, please read the file devel-docs/README.md. For detailed installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.

Web Resources ================

GIMP's home page is at:

https://www.gimp.org/

Please be sure to visit this site for information, documentation, tutorials, news, etc. All things GIMP-ish are available from there.

The latest version of GIMP can be found at:

https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

We also have a website dedicated to documentation at:

    https://docs.gimp.org/

2. Contributing

GIMP source code can be found at:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/

Resources for contributors:

    https://developer.gimp.org/

In particular, you may want to look in the "Core Development" section. Some articles of particular interest for newcomers could be:

Setting up your developer environment: https://developer.gimp.org/core/setup/
GIMP Coding Style: https://developer.gimp.org/core/coding_style/
Submit your first patch: https://developer.gimp.org/core/submit-patch/

Discussion Channels ======================

We have several discussion channels dedicated to GIMP user and development discussion. There is more info at:

    https://www.gimp.org/discuss.html

For the real junkies, there are IRC channels (e.g. #gimp or #gimp-user) devoted to GIMP on GIMPNet (a private free software oriented network). Many of the developers hang out there. Some of the GIMPNet servers are:

irc.gimp.org:6667
irc.us.gimp.org:6667
irc.eu.gimp.org:6667

More discussion channels, such as forums, will be listed on the above "discuss" page when they are moderated by a team member. Links to archives of former discussion methods (e.g. mailing lists) are also included in that page.

Customizing ==============

The look of GIMP's interface can be customized like any other GTK app by editing files in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/gtk-3.0/ (settings.ini and gtk.css in particular) or by using "themes" (ready-made customizations). Additionally, GIMP reads ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/GIMP/3.2/gimp.css so you can have settings that only apply to GIMP.

You can also manually change the keybindings to any of your choice by editing: ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/GIMP/3.2/shortcutsrc.

Have fun,

Spencer Kimball Peter Mattis Federico Mena Manish Singh Sven Neumann Michael Natterer Dave Neary Martin Nordholts Jehan Aryeom