Finally time for a new name?
Agreed. It's an unfortunate word. There are better choices that wouldn't exclude people.
Look everyone, someone is offended! A first for 2020! Someone give this guy an award!
Gimp is 25 years old today
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Re: Gimp is 25 years old today
#12Finally time for a new name?
Between it's derogatory and sexual definitions, I can't realistically use an app called "GIMP" at work even if I was personally comfortable with it. If you're in a similar position, try Glimpse.
Re: Gimp is 25 years old today
#13Finally time for a new name?
Agreed. It's an unfortunate word. There are better choices that wouldn't exclude people.
AFAIK it has nothing to do with physical disability. The word has a lot of meanings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp
Re: Gimp is 25 years old today
#14GIMP is such a strange tool. I actually have used it, semi-frequently - since the 90s! The overall experience of using it has only changed a little in that time. And it gets the job done. I guess that makes it successful! What else has been so stable?
But of all the software I have ever used, GIMP is the most difficult to learn. I memorized a few tutorials, this must have been around Y2K, to do the a couple things. And basically I have never figured out how to do anything else in it. After twenty years. Sometime, more than a decade ago, they made the tool icons both harder to recognize visually more unpredictable in their toolbox layout, and that still slows me down, too.
I just can't think of anything else I've had this kind of relationship with - other tools, I either master, or I move on from. GIMP is an odd one.
Re: Gimp is 25 years old today
#15Finally time for a new name?
Agreed. It's an unfortunate word. There are better choices that wouldn't exclude people.
I've used Gimp for 15 years and never once has being handicap or disabled reference crossed my mind while using this software until you just brought it up. You should reconsider reaching so hard.
Re: Gimp is 25 years old today
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. It's an unfortunate word. There are better choices that wouldn't exclude people.
Look everyone, someone is offended! A first for 2020! Someone give this guy an award!
Why does @dang and Hacker News think it's OK to mock the physically disabled?
Re: Gimp is 25 years old today
#17Phenomenal. One of my all time favorite pieces of Open Source Software. I used GIMP for years as my goto photo editor before migrating to the Mac.
You can still run GIMP on Mac. I do and love it.
Re: Gimp is 25 years old today
#18Finally time for a new name?
A "Debian Iceweasel" style rebranding seems like the easier option.
Re: Gimp is 25 years old today
#19Finally time for a new name?
Between it's derogatory and sexual definitions, I can't realistically use an app called "GIMP" at work even if I was personally comfortable with it. If you're in a similar position, try Glimpse. https://glimpse-editor.github.io/
> I can't realistically use an app called "GIMP" at work even if I was personally comfortable with it.
What kind of work do you do?
Re: Gimp is 25 years old today
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. It's an unfortunate word. There are better choices that wouldn't exclude people.
AFAIK it has nothing to do with physical disability. The word has a lot of meanings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp
You linked to a disambiguation page. Here's the definition: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gimp