Is there any version where I can read the text without a microscope?

[HavingTooMuchFun]

I'm on an Intel Mac mini, fresh MacOS install, Sequoia 6.0.1. As you might know, Sequoia has some major problems with Gimp 3, which in my case means wild strobing of any new page, and the gradients in the color picker turning to solid magenta. My beloved 2.8 can no longer run at all; it can get partway through loading an image, and then it crashes. 2.10 has a font size so minuscule that I can't read it without a microscope. As an addendum to that, although it's possible to make the icons plenty big, the foreground and background squares are so tiny that if the colors are similar, I can't reliably determine between them. I spent hours applying elaborate alleged technical solutions; no dice. 

I'm hoping there's something later in the 2.10 family that will be more usable...?

[rich2005]

(09-14-2025, 01:57 PM)HavingTooMuchFun Wrote: I'm on an Intel Mac mini, fresh MacOS install, Sequoia 6.0.1. As you might know, Sequoia has some major problems with Gimp 3, which in my case means wild strobing of any new page, and the gradients in the color picker turning to solid magenta. My beloved 2.8 can no longer run at all; it can get partway through loading an image, and then it crashes. 2.10 has a font size so minuscule that I can't read it without a microscope. As an addendum to that, although it's possible to make the icons plenty big, the foreground and background squares are so tiny that if the colors are similar, I can't reliably determine between them. I spent hours applying elaborate alleged technical solutions; no dice. 

I'm hoping there's something later in the 2.10 family that will be more usable...?

Looking at Mac Mini specs I assume that you are using some 4K display (or even higher). Also no idea what "elaborate alleged technical solutions" you used.

For Gimp 2.10, as stated you can increase the size of the icons, but not the FG/BG icon - and that remains.

If python 2 plugins work with your installation, there is a plugin that writes a small file gtkrc to your Gimp user profile.
That little gtkrc is zipped here. https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-gimp-i...4#pid37744
Unzip and put in your Gimp 2.10 user profile (wherever that is for a Mac, something like Users/name/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.10/  ).  It is just a tiny text file that you can edit and delete if no use.

The FG/BG icon in the tool box will remain tiny. Looking for a possible alternative, not much hope but you can add a colors dock if you have plenty display area. Too big for me with a HD display.   This comparison on my linux laptop. (scaled down)

   

You really need Gimp 3 and for those display peculiarities you should bring them to the notice of the Gimp devs. Might already have been reported - I do not know.

[HavingTooMuchFun]

(09-15-2025, 07:48 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Looking at Mac Mini specs I assume that you are using some 4K display (or even higher). Also no idea what "elaborate alleged technical solutions" you used.

For Gimp 2.10, as stated you can increase the size of the icons, but not the FG/BG icon - and that remains.

If python 2 plugins work with your installation, there is a plugin that writes a small file gtkrc to your Gimp user profile.
That little gtkrc is zipped here. https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-gimp-i...4#pid37744
Unzip and put in your Gimp 2.10 user profile (wherever that is for a Mac, something like Users/name/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.10/  ).  It is just a tiny text file that you can edit and delete if no use.

The FG/BG icon in the tool box will remain tiny. Looking for a possible alternative, not much hope but you can add a colors dock if you have plenty display area. Too big for me with a HD display.   This comparison on my linux laptop. (scaled down)



You really need Gimp 3 and for those display peculiarities you should bring them to the notice of the Gimp devs. Might already have been reported - I do not know.

It's deeply unfortunate that I need Gimp 3, given that, as I said, it's not usable with Sequoia.

If I understood my research correctly, my monitor is:  1920 x 1080 (Full HD/2K).

I was walked through elaborate procedures with buried folders somehow connected to Gimp functioning, and doing stuff on the Terminal; they didn't fix anything.

On 2.10 and 2.10.32, in addition to the minuscule foreground and background color things, there's the issue of the bars in the color picker all turning bright magenta. I've read that there's some sort of Python script issue with these versions, so maybe that's the reason.

What would be the point of adding that plug-in, since it doesn't do anything to help my issue with the box size…?

Did the boxes get bigger in any of the later versions in the 2 family?