GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

  • shutz@lemmy.ca
    324·
    4 months ago

    Why doesn’t someone just fork it and change the name?

    Like, I dunno, “Super Human Image Treatment” or “Consistently Lovely Image Treatment Oriented for Real Imaging Stars”

    • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
      32·
      4 months ago

      Actually, someone did, changing the name to “Glimpse”. They announced it as an explicit fork that would continue development under the new name.

      As far as I know, that’s as far as they got.

      • bitfucker@programming.dev
        13·
        4 months ago

        To be fair, if the fork sole purpose is to just re-label the software and make people that have irks because of the name start to use the software, who are we to judge?

        • khaleer@sopuli.xyz
          13·
          4 months ago

          People use Photoshop, but there is no shop and any photo in it at all (at least not when I was usin it, maybe they built in microtransactions already)

          • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            4 months ago

            Shop as in workshop, presumably.

            I don’t think that’s quite equivalent to having your name be gimp, which means, depending on definition, a fetishist in a full body latex suit who generally wants to be degraded or injured for sexual satisfaction, or a slur term for the severely disabled.

          • bitfucker@programming.dev
            1·
            4 months ago

            Eh, we can argue about language all we want but at the end of the day if it is still the same code just with a different branding, someone will be bound to automate the process eventually. It’s FOSS, if someone is willing to put in the works to enable people who think the brand name is a hindrance for their change then more power for them no? We even change master/slave terminology in CS and many other field for the same reason (linguistic)