I’m certain renaming GIMP would make a tremendous difference. The name is perceived as offensive & that makes it impossible for people to take seriously, especially in a corporate setting. Edit: As someone who has tried to get people using it because it’s such great software.
Yep, same experience here. The name is a big problem.
Re:GIMP's 2022 Annual Report
by rhaway84773 on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:01AM
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I’m also unlikely to recommend it to kids, for example, because googling its name can be risky.
ROTFL. Never heard about this in 20 years.
Doing an extended search shows that "gimp" is a kind of latex costume. There are worse things for kids than a latex costume. For example violence.
When I was a kid and trying to learn LaTeX this happened to me all the time on the library computers.
I do not think I have a point, you just made me remember some fun and dreadful moments.
gimp is not a latex costume
google: define gimp
> / (ɡɪmp) / noun. US and Canadian offensive, slang a physically disabled person, esp one who is lame. slang a sexual fetishist who likes to be dominated and who dresses in a leather or rubber body suit with mask, zips, and chains.
(probably from urban dictionary)
see also a real dictionary
Someone could easily fork it and change nothing but the branding if the name was such a problem.
I'm pretty sure that the biggest threat to the adoption of GIMP isn't the name GIMP, it's Adobe doing regular Adobe things.
Re:GIMP's 2022 Annual Report
by antiatheist on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:51AM
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Re:GIMP's 2022 Annual Report
by tastysandwich on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:47AM
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I used it in my high-school multimedia class instead of Photoshop and my (female) teacher never bat an eyelid. I can't imagine many workplaces that would be more prudish than a Catholic school? The biggest obstacle I find is that people are used to Photoshop, and some tools are quite tricky to use (the alignment tool).
They should rename it for americans. For the rest of the world it can stay the same.
Re:GIMP's 2022 Annual Report
by letrowekwel on Monday January 30, 2023 @02:44AM
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Maybe in America. I can assure elsewhere nobody has any idea of the offensive meaning.
We know what a gimp is, the film Pulp Fiction and the internet exist here :-)
I remember I worked in a content creation related company and the director saying “there’s a reason they call it GIMP”
I’m not sure a name change would do that much. The tool itself is behind photoshop from 2010 and the gap is growing.
Do you genuinely think this change would help the project? I don’t see how it does anything other than confuse potential users and cause a lot of discussion about something that doesn’t actually improve the functionality itself.