Re:Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin – Resources and Notes
by alexey-salmin on Sunday February 16, 2025 @03:57PM
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You can fork it, rename to something like "Glimpse" and see the adoption skyrocket. Surely the success is just around the corner. Oh wait a minute
Re:Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin – Resources and Notes
by gkbrk on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:08PM
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Hey don't be unfair to them, they also tried to collect donations for changing the name.
Re:Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin – Resources and Notes
by CharlesW on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:59PM
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Point taken — the name is just one of many issues between GIMP and Blender-like success. But there are also open source projects like Inkscape, which enjoyed success in part because of a rechristening that eliminated the headwinds of previous bad names.
Re:Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin – Resources and Notes
by talldayo on Sunday February 16, 2025 @03:13PM
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The project will limp along regardless. If you want to see it succeed, you should stop repeating the same name non-issue and send patches instead. If it was truly a great program people wouldn't care what it was called.
Alternatively; fork the program yourself and change the name. It's not going to hit Blender levels of popularity overnight, but at least HN could sleep better knowing the name isn't an icky Folsom Street thing. It's getting tiring to open every GIMP changelog discussion and see people worried about Grandma's opinion on the software.
Some folks who are neither prudish or humorless want to see the project and its contributors succeed to the degree that alternatives like Photopea has, or as Blender has in the 3D space. The project will continue to limp along until the name is changed to something without negative connotations in English-speaking populations.