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GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!
https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!
Welcome to GIMP 3.0!
@GIMP@floss.social slurs against disabled people are so 1825, change the name you ableist fucks
@mxjaygrant @GIMP actually for me it always was the sexual thing. Today I learned.. why are we not even remotely talking about changing the name?!
@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.
@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.
@piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP
Remember, renaming costs money and is a lot of work that the team might prefer to invest in the product.
Should gimp be renamed? Probably.
Do I want to take on the work and the costs? Definitely not.
@piratenpanda @supertobi @mxjaygrant @GIMP Yeah, I could get behind the dorky logo, it's kinda sweet but the name is just ... ew.
@piratenpanda @supertobi @mxjaygrant @GIMP
What about all these other meaning, most which have been around longer and are still in use?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/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.