Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades
Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades
The slow and steady climb to 3.0 culminates in the most modernized version of GIMP yet.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26156649
The slow and steady climb to 3.0 culminates in the most modernized version of GIMP yet.
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Pity about the cringey name.
It's an acronym: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
Seems more like a backronym to me, they could've picked something better.
Dunno why you're being downvoted. It's very obviously deliberately chosen to make 12 year olds giggle.
Like GNU Linux Image Enhancement Manager
There was a fork with a different name. It bombed.
Well you don't fork a project just to rename it, that's not why it would have bombed.
The Glimpse Editor project shut down because there weren’t enough contributors, and the founder didn’t have enough time to do everything.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210531113823/https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/a-project-on-hiatus/
…and yeah it wasn’t just a rename, their github readme suggests they were making UX, accessibility, settings, and plugin changes to make it “enterprise ready” (not sure on the specific details of that though).
https://web.archive.org/web/20210729071541/https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse
Glimpse is a much better name, though.
It really is.
Yeah.
The project name embodies several of the worst aspects of the FOSS community, and none of the best.
It's a shared embarrassment, by association, to many of us.