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I don't think it's highly damaging. It's an acronym. Is BBC's name highly damaging?
Why would it be? I can't think of a single meaning of BBC which translates to an insult. GIMP on the other hand has more than one meanings as an insult (not even an acronym).
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It's fairly idiotic at this stage that this has never been changed. Highly damaging to the products outward appearance.
I don't think it's highly damaging. It's an acronym. Is BBC's name highly damaging?
I can't think of an acronym example though.
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This is posted every time this software comes up here. I don't know where you people are from, but in my dialect (Eastern US, Gen Z) "gimp" is just not a particularly rude word. It's used primarily as a verb, meaning "to reduce in efficacy, to hamper." Obviously it has it's noun definition too, bit if you think that has anything to do with the lack of adoption of this software you're kidding yourself, you gits.
In places where people speak the other flavours of English, reading the name goes a bit like this: The first thing that comes to mind is a slang term for someone who is physically disabled or limps. The second thing is that it refers to an insult (someone weak or foolish). Then one starts to wonder if it's a bondage reference... unless one is given additional context, one can never get to a design tool out of this. Y…
Misunderstand what? Painting with GIMP?
It's an acronym. Maybe I'm completely socially inept, but I don't see at all how it would be embarrassing to explain even to close family that I'm using GNU Image Manipulation Program. People are not going to overhear me and think I'm editing images with someone disabled or wearing a ball gag and straitjacket. It just doesn't happen outside Jim Carrey movies.
It’s time for a new name. “gimp” may be semantically correct but it hardly prepares one for a “friendly and powerful graphics editing tool”.
Digital Image Correction Kit
Touch-up & Image Transformation Studio
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Also remember for million time they will never use it because it doesn't have exact keys as their proprietary contents kidnapper software.
I don't know... it seems to me that most of the complaints about Gimp come from people who actually use it, because people who never use it wouldn't have anything to complain about. It also seems odd to assert that non-contributors have no right to complain on a forum where most people, most of the time, complain about things they have no direct knowledge of nor a hand in making.
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Why would it be? I can't think of a single meaning of BBC which translates to an insult. GIMP on the other hand has more than one meanings as an insult (not even an acronym).
Uhhh BBC also stands for something else, and that second meaning is a very common term on the internet.
Naming things is hard, someone should setup a focus group :)
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Inkscape is an SVG editor. It's in the name. I for one love having a tool with semantics so close to the format, instead of dealing with Illustrator's nonsense. Sometimes Illustrator is the right tool, but as a web developer, Inkscape is the only sane tool for manipulating SVG.
The point is this a solved problem in every other paint program out there since Xerox, no one is asking for drawing SVG. But it never gets sorted out due to whatever ideologic feeling Gimp developers have with offering only paths as option.
As is tradition, all threads about an open source project must be kicked off with non-contributers putting shit on it unconstructively.
As is tradition, all threads about open source talk about how great alternatives to commercial tools they happen to be, and how we should all shame ourselves only by thinking in using commercial software, without any consideration why we use them in first place.
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The point is this a solved problem in every other paint program out there since Xerox, no one is asking for drawing SVG. But it never gets sorted out due to whatever ideologic feeling Gimp developers have with offering only paths as option.
My post was irrelevant anyway, somehow I misread and thought you were replying to a post about Inkscape. Sorry about that!