I'm glad that this program (which should maybe bite the bullet and rename itself GnuIMP?) maintains the now-decades-old tradition of beautiful splash screens. Getting rid of splash screens in general has been a good thing, but this was always a beautiful/fun tradition and I'm glad it lives on.
https://fosstodon.org/@zemarmot/113670890497756811
@luis_in_brief or drop the whole association with Gnu? It does not benefit them.
Tools like Inkscape, Krita also do not need to reference this; the general audience do not understand what it means.
The joke: "Bring out the gimp" is perhaps also lost on many.
LibreCraft, ImageForge, PixelCraft, Creopix, InkStudio, PixelStudio, etc... plenty more available...
@gbraad @luis_in_brief The most recent "change the name" fork chose Glimpse as the name. It eventually wound down due to lack of contributors.
Gimp is a complex application with a relatively small development team. The only way a name change is going to succeed is if it brings those developers along with it, and so far they don't seem interested in a name change.
@luis_in_brief @gbraad This got me wondering a bit about the other Gimp forks. It looks like Cinepaint (previously FilmGimp) is still seeing a trickle of commits, but they're maintaining their own fork of GTK 1.2 with the build system converted to CMake: https://gitlab.com/robinrowe/gtk1
@jamesh @luis_in_brief @gbraad “mom, we need motif”
Mom: “we have motif at home”
Motif at home: …
@jamesh @luis_in_brief @gbraad wait, they back ported the GDK backends from GTK2?! That’s… a choice…
@ebassi @luis_in_brief @gbraad The win32 backend is Tor Lillqvist's port that never got merged into mainline GTK 1.2.
It made sense not to destabilise GTK 1.2 when GTK 2.0 was in development and could more cleanly support multiple backends. That's cold comfort if you've got a GTK 1.2 app that you want to run on Windows though...
@jamesh @luis_in_brief @gbraad it also has the Quartz backend from GTK2; that one depends on polling the quartz events from the glib main loop, which I don’t think was entirely possible to do until glib2, though
@ebassi @luis_in_brief @gbraad The MacOS code seems to be from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-osx/files/GTK%2B%20Version%201%20OSX/gtk-osx-0.7/
There's lots of "unimplemented" warnings in there, so I'm not sure how much stuff actually works.
I'll never understand the American need to polish language in tech.
I wonder if US developers feel so unconfortable with their history of oppression of minorities that they can't focus before anything that remind them about it.
Words have different meanings in different contexts, to a non native English speaker, #Gimp is just a software, not a slur.
A rename would makes tons of documentation and tutorials unfindable online to everybody all over the world... for no concrete benefit.
Do you want to fight abelism?
Donate money to education and schools, volunteer in organizations and so on...
