lacking, splash integration, documentation, when the environment variable WLBR_IS_GIMP is set, in ui visible strings GIMP/gimp is replaced with WLBR/wlbr.
If FOSS is going to make headway in business and among the non-technical, names should be descriptive and not based on some edgy humor a dev thinks is high comedy.
“Git” is only really a word in British English which implicitly gives it lower worldwide cultural penetration than a general English term. For most non-British programmers (and honestly I would imagine many British ones given how ubiquitous Git VC is now), “Git” refers to the software first and the pejorative second, if they’ve even heard of the latter before.
It’s such a well know piece of software now, I can’t believe that’s even an issue. The other definition of the word probably has a fraction of the people who know about it.
Is it April fool?
What in earth…gl
Gimp is perfectly fine name…
WTF
Lol
It’s really not ok.
If FOSS is going to make headway in business and among the non-technical, names should be descriptive and not based on some edgy humor a dev thinks is high comedy.
Like “plasma”?
Yeah names is important, but come on, Blender?
Gimp is only a problemi for an handfull of english speaker americans. 90% of people in the world dont care.
It stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program… how is that not descriptive?
If the name were the problem then why doesn’t someone fork the project and change only the name? <- actual question, not trying to be a smartass
In either case they are starting from ~zero name recognition.
You’re not trying to have an actual discussion.
@Krudler @Shimitar so GIT and GitHub is next
“Git” is only really a word in British English which implicitly gives it lower worldwide cultural penetration than a general English term. For most non-British programmers (and honestly I would imagine many British ones given how ubiquitous Git VC is now), “Git” refers to the software first and the pejorative second, if they’ve even heard of the latter before.
I’d have some reservations about putting “worked on the GIMP project” on my CV.
Yeah, maybe because i am not native english speaker
It’s such a well know piece of software now, I can’t believe that’s even an issue. The other definition of the word probably has a fraction of the people who know about it.
I have been a staunch advocate of open source software at my company and I promise you the vast majority of people do not know what gimp is.