GIMP wants to release 3.2.6 and they're looking for stuff they need to do to improve from 3.2.5

GIMP is meant more for retouching photos, not drawing shapes. If you mostly want to draw shapes from scratch, you probably want something like Krita or Inkscape instead.

But if you really must draw a circle in GIMP, you make a circular selection and then fill it in with the bucket fill tool.

Use ellipse select tool with a fixed aspect ratio of 1:1. Then Select -> Border and choose a width. Then fill it with a color.

Like yeah, it is 3 steps instead of having a dedicated "Shapes" tool with a bunch of options that would do the same. But GIMP is kind of built around selections, you do need to learn to use them if you ever want to use GIMP effectively. It's about as important as understanding layers.

https://krita.org/

Use the ellipse selection tool, hold shift as you make your section to keep it 1:1, selection to path, fill/stroke as needed?

You called, we came.

"Brothers in arms, take up this rightful jihad against the Adobe scourge and throw every able man, woman, and child into this holy battle to make our voices heard. Lift up your hearts and let it be known that we the people shall no longer be oppressed by this hateful regime, and shall bring about the light of hope in a dying world by casting our lot into the boiling pot of battle-tested warriors, and right all the wrongs in the universe..."

I think they are quoting themselves. I'm fairly sure they've posted this exact thing before, for other versions of GIMP

Hello, this is Tim Adobe. Don't worry, we are working hard to make sure we remain the best. There's currently a team trying to figure out wtf a "gnu" is while another team figures out the maximum price increase our customer base will accept to give us a good budget to work with (previous profits were used on boats for executive team and some pizzas from the cheapest place my executive assistant could find with free delivery). Is Mr GIMP interested in selling?

This isn't Reddit.

You mean Inkscape? I think that's more Inkscape's wheelhouse.

New Ui announced, testers needed. What do you do? Complain about the old UI. Smart.

Sit anybody in front of Photoshop for the first time and it will be the same.

Yeah it's literally not for you. Its like opening up cad (engineering tool) and complaining that there's a learning curve. My good friend is a graphic designer. I tried to get them to use gimp when they couldn't pay for photoshop anymore but it sounded like they just wanted to rip their hair out because of how behind photoshop it is. Gimp needs the basic features that are expected from photoshop for people to be willing to transition. You would be better off trying a graphic design bootcamp.

I will try to convince them to test it out but they just got access to photoshop again so it's unlikely they'll want to touch gimp anytime soon😮‍💨

You want MS Paint.

it is UNUSABLE by normal people.

I guess I am not a normal person then. I have been using GIMP happily for more than 20 years now. FWIW, I rarely need to draw circles.

Wellllll that's exactly what they're looking for testers for right now

What do you think this announcement want you to test?

App is great, name is terrible but the devs like it and don't want to entertain the idea of renaming.

Professional Image Manipulation Program

Me: spruke gimp to artist friends
Them: gimp? Like a gimp suit?
End of conversation

Dunno why you're getting downvotes