Haven't seen anything on Graphite.rs (site is still suggesting Q4 2025) but people on the Affinity Discord have been putting a lot of disgruntled new eyes on it.

Thanks for posting, I hadn't even heard of this

> GIMP

still no cmyk, and AFAIK text editing is almost worse than useless. not everybody's use case, but it keeps me spending 12.99 a month for PS.

And Blender.

Yeah I know it sounds like a joke, but all Blender's icons are made in Blender, so it's officially an 2D vector graphics app too.

Most of Blender's icons are actually made in Penpot which is also what the Blender foundation uses for UI prototyping. The brush icons are made in Blender though!

https://penpot.app/penpothub/libraries-templates/blender-con...

https://code.blender.org/2024/11/new-brush-thumbnails/

GIMP doesn't have "Patch tool", it doesn't have "Inpaint Brush" that is like content aware fill but brush, it doesn't have content aware fill either. I remember there were some plugins that provide features kinda similar to those tools but it was a huge pain to install and use them through nested filter menus. It's a great program for free open source, but it's decades behind on feature parity with other editors, and launch times long enough for me to prefer opening Photopea tab in browser instead

Gravit Designer was sunset 9/1 of this year after the acquisition by Corel.

Darn, that's sad to hear.

Viva Designer as an alternative to Publisher. There's also a Linux version as well as Mac and Windows.

oops, sorry, Viva is not open source.

Paint.NET isn't open source, is it?

Good point, free as in beer, right?

https://github.com/orgs/paintdotnet/repositories

Wow, awesome, I had no idea.

Oh, only some code for some plugins are there. Bummer. :/

Yeah, I don't know why I keep thinking paint.net is opensource....