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· Föderation EN Mo 17.03.2025 22:44:27 @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP The discussion about the name is very old. It is even in the FAQ: https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-gimp-will-you-change-it And there was a fork, Glimpse, but they could not find enough contributors: https://news.itsfoss.com/glimpse-gimp-fork-archived/ And that's how open source works. If no one cares, nothing will change. |
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Föderation EN Mo 17.03.2025 23:06:05 @supertobi @mxjaygrant @GIMP yeah I know all that. But the thing is, the more I grow away from my nerdy teenage self, I understand it less and less. The "coincidence" while finding an acronym is just incomprehensible. It might have been "funny" back then, but now it isn't any more. The FAQ reads like the project didn't grow up which is sad because the program is great and the new people involved are as well. So I wonder why keep that cruft. |
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Föderation EN Mo 17.03.2025 23:22:35 @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP Remember, renaming costs money and is a lot of work that the team might prefer to invest in the product. |
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Föderation EN Di 18.03.2025 02:15:06 @supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP They aren't open to changing the name. If they were and actually said we want to but we need to do such and such and it costs money they would actually get support to help. Right now they are just being obtuse. |
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Föderation EN Di 18.03.2025 02:51:31 @rawrmonstar @supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP For what it's worth, this issue was discussed during a team meet-up in the last few years: https://developer.gimp.org/conferences/wilberweek/2023-amsterdam/#gimp-renaming It's one of the many things that developers want to come back to, after we recover from the 3.0 release. |
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Föderation EN Di 18.03.2025 04:29:33 @CmykStudent @supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP y’all might want to update the FAQ if it’s an actual possibility! Based off of that it sounds less like “its difficult to change such an old name” to “we won’t change it and in fact it’s for some principled reason” |
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Föderation EN Di 18.03.2025 06:58:32 @rawrmonstar @CmykStudent @supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant@triangletoot. Thanks.. It’s on the agenda to discuss, which would include the practicalities. As the individual (@barefootliam) responding in this message, i’ll say ii hadn’t noticed that FAQ comment before today and will suggest changing it, if whoever wrote it isn’t too wedded to it. We have parts of the Web site going back almost 30 years! |
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Föderation EN Di 18.03.2025 07:10:31 @GIMP @rawrmonstar @CmykStudent @supertobi @barefootliam thanks for taking your time to reply here. Appreciated! |
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Föderation EN Mo 17.03.2025 23:36:01 @piratenpanda @supertobi @mxjaygrant @GIMP Yeah, I could get behind the dorky logo, it's kinda sweet but the name is just ... ew. |
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Föderation EN Di 18.03.2025 04:09:21 @piratenpanda @supertobi @mxjaygrant @GIMP All kinds of definitions related to detail-work, especially for making aesthetic improvements, and even a definition meaning "tidy" or "elegant"? Sure, you can argue they thought the double-meaning could shield them from criticism or whatever, but I doubt they'd even care back then, and that's not a far walk from paranoid hypotheticals. |
