cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26156649

The slow and steady climb to 3.0 culminates in the most modernized version of GIMP yet.

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[+] -14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pity about the cringey name.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's an acronym: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    yeah but it apparently has some disgusting meaning that I always forget as a non-native english user

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    As a native English speaker I didn't know "gimp" was more than a nonsense word and a lowercase version of this program until your comment. I admit I grew up sheltered and that probably influenced what slang terms, especially unkind ones, I learned about, but otherwise I don't consider myself particularly deficient in the vocabulary department.

    Offensive word for someone with a physical disability or leg injury, a stupid person, or (not sure if it's okay in this context) a submissive person in BDSM activities, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    There was a fork with a different name. It bombed.

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  • [+] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Glimpse Editor project shut down because there weren’t enough contributors, and the founder didn’t have enough time to do everything.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20210531113823/https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/a-project-on-hiatus/

    …and yeah it wasn’t just a rename, their github readme suggests they were making UX, accessibility, settings, and plugin changes to make it “enterprise ready” (not sure on the specific details of that though).

    https://web.archive.org/web/20210729071541/https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse

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