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GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!
https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!
Welcome to GIMP 3.0!
@GIMP@floss.social slurs against disabled people are so 1825, change the name you ableist fucks
@mxjaygrant @GIMP actually for me it always was the sexual thing. Today I learned.. why are we not even remotely talking about changing the name?!
@piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP
The discussion about the name is very old. It is even in the FAQ:
https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-gimp-will-you-change-it
And there was a fork, Glimpse, but they could not find enough contributors:
https://news.itsfoss.com/glimpse-gimp-fork-archived/
And that's how open source works. If no one cares, nothing will change.
@supertobi @mxjaygrant @GIMP yeah I know all that. But the thing is, the more I grow away from my nerdy teenage self, I understand it less and less. The "coincidence" while finding an acronym is just incomprehensible. It might have been "funny" back then, but now it isn't any more. The FAQ reads like the project didn't grow up which is sad because the program is great and the new people involved are as well. So I wonder why keep that cruft.
@piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP
Remember, renaming costs money and is a lot of work that the team might prefer to invest in the product.
Should gimp be renamed? Probably.
Do I want to take on the work and the costs? Definitely not.
@supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP They aren't open to changing the name. If they were and actually said we want to but we need to do such and such and it costs money they would actually get support to help. Right now they are just being obtuse.
@rawrmonstar @supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP For what it's worth, this issue was discussed during a team meet-up in the last few years: https://developer.gimp.org/conferences/wilberweek/2023-amsterdam/#gimp-renaming
It's one of the many things that developers want to come back to, after we recover from the 3.0 release.
@CmykStudent @supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant @GIMP y’all might want to update the FAQ if it’s an actual possibility! Based off of that it sounds less like “its difficult to change such an old name” to “we won’t change it and in fact it’s for some principled reason”
@rawrmonstar @CmykStudent @supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant@triangletoot. Thanks.. It’s on the agenda to discuss, which would include the practicalities. As the individual (@barefootliam) responding in this message, i’ll say ii hadn’t noticed that FAQ comment before today and will suggest changing it, if whoever wrote it isn’t too wedded to it. We have parts of the Web site going back almost 30 years!
@GIMP @rawrmonstar @CmykStudent @supertobi @barefootliam thanks for taking your time to reply here. Appreciated!