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It's also available from the menus, of course:

Help > Search and Run a Command /

/ is also a common shortcut to invoke a quick find text entry, for example in web browsers.

The issues with finding builds for Microsoft Windows platforms was what got me into GIMP development. Not for the releases, because those usually came about in a matter of days, but daily builds (or sometimes hourly) which tracked development exactly.

... and now https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/

But make sure that they don't make sliders too small - you'll lose the ability to do either fine relative or coarse absolute adjustments by dragging their lower or upper half.

Yeah, you most likely got rid of an existing cache, which couldn't be updated due to file locking. That issue is fixed in recent versions of the fontconfig library.

A fairly current one is shipped with the 2.9.6 installer, so many of the infamous issues should be gone.

The fontconfig cache is created on all platforms - it's just that this step is usually done when installing the system or adding new fonts from the package manager for your average Linux distro. Granted, it also works much faster there in general.

Adding a few new fonts for a specific project does not cause long delays on any platform.

A compounding issue was that file locking issues prevented successful cache updates on the Windows platforms until recent versions of fontconfig, this lead to a long startup time on every start.

Did you try whether it works? If this was in your video, I didn't see it.

Well, Shawn has already renewed gimp.org.

This wasn't really surprising to me* - some months ago, when we discovered that gimpguru.org (no one from GIMP is connected to that site, btw) had expired and taken over by a third-party, we checked and discovered that gimp.org expires on 2015-08-03.

Personally, I firmly believe that useful change only happens when survivable incidents happen, so my only concern was whether gimp.org would be lost immediately it wasn't renewed before that date. But when someone pointed out the grace period, I thought "well, either it is renewed in time, or we will have discussions similar to those that happen right now, might be a good wakeup call".

* but yes, of course I was surprised when I couldn't connect to www.gimp.org anymore, in particular because I had some updates planned for the downloads pages, because I had simply forgotten about it. Dismissing it as a non-issue until something actually happens tneds to cuase this, apparently.

Elle Stone's reply to a thread (that was started as a third party's attempt to rekindle that looong discussion):

"I agree with Alexandre. If I really do understand what Jon Nordby is saying (see https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2014-Nov... and https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2014-Nov...), and if the other babl/GEGL/GIMP developers really are in agreement with Jon Nordby (the babl roadmap leaves room for differing interpretations), then there is no reason whatsoever for further discussion of forking babl and GEGL to benefit GIMP."

And that route is paved by GEGL.

I guess many consider this as obvious, but I suspect that some people in this thread might not know what GEGL actually is.

And this is the mail that Elle should respond to: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2014-Nov...

In general, many people in the GIMP community found Elle's mails puzzling.

There have been suggestions to take the discussions to a more interactive environment - for example IRC, where most discussion happen anyway, or to the next Libre Graphics Meeting.

It would help others to evaluate your claim.

Thanks for clarifying - I always suspected this to be the case, but I wasn't sure.