I think OP is referring to Fog Panther, I just saw this yesterday in Flathub: https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.fogpanther.FogPanther. It definitely appears to be some jackass selling a blatant GIMP clone.
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AFAIK GIMP only gained GTK 3 support on Nov 2024 and they're still working on GTK 4.
If this is really GTK 4, they might have forked from GIMP for a while now.
There's chances this really is a brand new UI on top of GIMP as opposed to just being a layout change and rename, but I guess someone would have to poke at it further to confirm.
the "art" looks very ai as well and given it's only a single layer it certainly is not made in this software or by the person making this software
The program Fog Panther (if this it the program the OP is referring to) was already rejected for using (entirely?) Ai: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/8077 . 3 weeks ago they closed it with conclusion:
Sorry we don't review AI Slop.
The lack of layers in the layer panal is suspious.
what is it
Looks very sketchy but I'm not to sure if it really is GIMP. It's code is old and complex changing it to look like in the screenshot would be a big project on itself.
inkscape? which is free
Gimp is a rasterized editor and inkscape is a vector editor. Both have limited functionality within the other category of graphics if I'm not mistaken but theyre not the same kind of tool
Is Photoshop the same as Illustrator?
I think you are right, this looks just like inkscape to me.
While the styling looks vaguely similar to inkscape none of the toolbars or anything have the correct tool contents to be inkscape
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