I did read that the concentration is on bug fixes up to Gimp 2.10 release, rather than new features.

Still managed to sneak a new dockable in - Gimp Dashboard

   

If you are into big images / lots of layers / high bit depth might come in useful to forewarn of impending disaster

Does GIMP have any kind of spell checking tool/solution for the text tool?
Found nothing in this forum, nothing in the old gimpforum forum, couldn't find any obvious plugins in the plugins repo either.

Young boy goes to his father and asks

'Can I have a BitCoin for Chrismas'

Father says

What! £10,362 ....
£9,760 is a lot of money ....
Why do you want £11,061?

I am using gimp 2.8 on Ubuntu 16.04 with a Wacom Tablet.  The problem is that even after reinstalling Gimp the erase key fails to work.  It continues to paint, say, and refuses to switch to erase.  I can make text boxes and use other tools but the program refuses to switch to erase.  If I change the file .gimp2.8 to gimp2.8delete or something and reinitiate Gimp, erase works for a few minutes and the problem returns.  The problem occurs whether I use the tablet or the mouse.  Any thoughts?

What if I have a selection on one layer and I want to center another layer in the middle of that selection. How would I do that?

I could not find any OSX 2.9.8 version on https://www.gimp.org/downloads/, and I can't find any older version either. Are there any 2.9 versions for mac?

I want to use extended color depth.

Is there a way to do this?  The move tool doesn't work on text layers apparently.
I create a lot of text layers programatically and I don't want to have to use the resize tools afterwards just to move the text around. I want the same dimensions... just placed in a different location.

Does anyone have a any tips or tricks for this?

How do I re-dock the tool options dialogue in the toolbox.  So far, the only way I can get it to dock is to reinstall gimp, which doesn't take more than a few minutes, but there has to be a better way.

Hello,

Somehow the settings palette for each tool has disappeared and I can get it back. By 'settings palette', I mean, for example, the palette on which I can choose remove, union, intersection, etc. for the magic wand select tool, or the line thickness of the free form pencil tool. There is nothing in the recently closed windows list. Reinstalling Gimp didn't work. How do I get it back?

Thanks

See below.
I get a g1Layer is unbound error, despite the fact that (non-empty) text is being passed in to the g1Text parameter.
The intent is to create a text layer and then position a comic book style talk bubble underneath it.

Can you place conditionals inside the local variable declaration area in scheme? How do I prevent bubbles/text layer being created if the user passes in a blank string?