Interesting. That aligns somewhat with another comment I heard recently about buttons.

I’m not currently able to change the actual icons in my themes, but their ‘brightness’ is easy to adjust. If you want to do it yourself you can edit the rgb values on line 180 in the gimp.css file starting ‘@define-color fg-color’. They’re currently set at 245 but you could change them to 230 for example.

Do you find them too bright in the dark theme?

Thanks!

Yes, you’ve got it 👍

You can basically just treat everything available in Discover as good, because everything there will either be from Debian or from Flathub.

I’m on Debian 13 too but have the GNOME desktop environmet.

Just to clarify what others are saying: the ‘software store’ (Discover in your case) is just the graphical application that you use to manage the software installed on your computer. The repositories, aka ‘repos’ are the sources of that software. There are people whose job it is to vet the software in those repositories and make sure that it’s safe. Flatpak is a packaging format. The biggest repository (and what you likely have enabled) for flatpaks is Flathub. If you’re installing software from the Debian repo and Flathub you should be fine. You should be able to verify which repositories are enabled via the Discover app. You have the freedom to add other repositories too, but it will be your own responsibility to evaluate whether those sources are trustworthy if you do.

Long story short, if you just use Debian as it is, you are fine.

Don’t worry, I get KDE updates in GNOME.

Glad you found it and hope you’re enjoying the theme :)

Thanks for the detailed feedback - perspective is very useful!

notably on popups (ones that appear on hover)

Do you mean the ‘tooltips’ (little windows that pop up and tell you what something does)? I think I’ll make these a bit darker.

That’s a good observation about the plus/minus icons and text padding and I agree with you. It may be possible to override this in the theme CSS but I’m not certain. If not then it’s still something I would pass on to the UX team.

It’s a delicate balancing act with padding and spacing - too little makes everything look cramped, and too much pushes the panels too far out into the image canvas on smaller displays like laptops. Your idea of reducing icon size is a sensible one for this reason too.

The Folders button on the left should be a dropdown menu - are you able to click on the arrow next to it to expand it and scroll down to see everything under it?

Thanks, that’s very encouraging of you :) This was the first time I’d ever made a theme (or even used CSS) so it was quite a long process. It’s really nice to hear that someone else has found value in it.

So many people seem to be piling on Gimp because of its UI (at least some of it is unwarranted and due to reputation I’m sure), I wouldn’t understimate the potential impact of a “simple” theme.

You know just this afternoon I started wondering the same thing… It kind of blew my mind to think that all the vitriol online about the UI could just be a case of theming. No one is very specific about their complaints, so it hadn’t crossed my mind.

I think if I get a good response to my dark theme too I will approach the devs and offer to help implement it as a core part of GIMP. BTW if you fancy testing it out let me know - I’d appreciate it getting tested on another system before I release it.

Thanks! Yes, I thought about it, although it would need some additional work as each in-built GIMP theme is structured to draw on common files, whereas mine are standalone. Totally possible though. Maybe when I have a complete set (Grey, Dark and Light), and if they’re popular, I’ll post something on the Gitlab and see what they say!

I think that’s totally fair enough.

Ah good old flatpak strikes again.

I’d forgotten that flatpak is a pain for this and I ended up manually working around it.

I’m thinking of adding the following to the download page:

“When installed via Flatpak, GIMP folders can be hard to find. I recommend creating your own folder for downloaded themes and adding it to GIMP: Create a new folder e.g ‘my-gimp-themes’ somewhere that makes sense to you and then place the unzipped PrintroomExpertSuperflat folder inside it. Then, in GIMP, go to Edit > Preferences > Folders > Themes, click the ‘Add a new folder’ button on the left and then the ‘Open a file selector…’ button on the right and select your my-gimp-themes folder. Finally, click the OK button. New themes will become avalable after restarting GIMP. All further theme downloads can be placed in the my-gimp-themes folder.”

Would you mind letting me know if that makes sense and works for you? Thanks!

Cool, let me know what you think - I’m open to feedback 👍

Yeah! The workarounds I had before were complicated and didn’t perform very well, so this is a major improvement.

I suspect that it will be easy for the GIMP team to make this a new layer type of its own and make it even simpler too.

I made a theme which is more professional-looking and less busy/cramped if you’re interested:

https://jpicture.net/printroomexpertsuperflat/

I’m about to release a dark version of it too.

The fact that this word needs explaining to 99% of the world’s population tells me that it’s not much of an issue.

I don’t work with HDR much, but have you tried setting it to 32bit linear floating-point?

I love how much simpler it is in this release to make independent effects/adjustment layers. You just make a group layer and set the mode to ‘Pass through’. Then the adjustments/effects/filters you put on it are a) applied to all layers below it b) fully non-destructive and c) can have their own mask.

The number of adjustments you can make non-destructively - and have full control over - makes GIMP 3.2 the most powerful non-destructive editor that I know of.