New Shortcuts Editing Dialog
Contributor: Akascape
The current GIMP Shortcut Dialog is outdated and not so user-friendly. During this GSoC term (2026), I can contribute improving the Shortcut Dialog....
End user applications
GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor
Technologies
CGEGL
Topics
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- Total projects
- 14
- Years participating
- 5
- Most recent
- 2026
Participation history
Historical projects
GIMP Extension Infrastructure and Validation System
Contributor: blezecon
The current extension ecosystem for GIMP lacks a structured and automated infrastructure for validating, publishing, and distributing extensions....
Revamping the GIMP Text Engine HarfBuzz and OpenType
Contributor: v4vansh
GIMPs typographic engine is currently limited by legacy GTK3 and Pango constraints. This project overhauls the text backend by directly integrating...
Working on new GEGL ops and porting existing filters as GEGL ops
Contributor: Waris Maqbool
GIMP is actively migrating its legacy filter system to proper GEGL operations to enable non-destructive editing, and better PSD compatibility. This...
Design and Improvement of GIMP's Text Tool
Contributor: Gabriele Barbero
This project aims to improve the Text Tool in GIMP, enhancing the user experience by providing a more powerful and intuitive interface for editing...
Enhance the plug-in/filter development experience
Contributor: Ondřej Míchal
The new 3.0 release of GIMP introduced many API changes that require all third-party plugins to be updated. Notably, a new filter API for using GEGL...
Extension website
Contributor: Shivam Shekhar Soy
This proposal outlines a comprehensive plan to develop a new website for GIMP's extension platform. The project will focus on creating a primarily...
Improving the Text-Tool (cont'd)
Contributor: Idriss Fekir
Continuing last year’s GSOC work done on the text-tool, This project aims at bringing OpenType features support to GIMP, and also improve Font...
Porting from GtkTreeView to a new GimpTreeView
Contributor: Cheesequake
Currently GIMP uses the complicated GtkTreeView from GTK3. My job is to create a new GimpTreeView widget which moves away from GtkTreeView as it will...
Robust OpenCL Operations
Contributor: Varun Samaga B L
The massively parallel nature of many real-world computations has led to the development of specialized massively parallel hardware such as GPUs,...
Implement Initial Non-Destructive Editing Workflow in GIMP
Contributor: cmyk-student
GIMP utilizes a Destructive Editing workflow – all changes are made directly to the image itself. A much requested feature is Non-Destructive Editing...
Improving the Text Tool
Contributor: Idriss Fekir
GIMP is a high end photo editor, but its text tool is rudimentary. A lot could be done to improve it, UI/UX-wise and feature-wise. I plan on...
Auto-growing layers
Contributor: sbdaule5
GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP in short, is one of the most popular image editing programs that is Free and Open Source. But currently, the...
Implement basic CMYK support in GIMP
Contributor: cmyk-student
One of the most requested features for GIMP is support for CMYK and desktop publishing - there's even an FAQ entry on their site specifically for it!...