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Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by prmoustache »

jrm4 wrote: post #94

Will continue to say it, this piece of software that could be a mainstream huge deal, a straight-up Adobe killer, will never do this unless it changes its name. I've mostly given up hope on this, but it's still wild that people who work on the software just seem to very stubbornly not understand this. Whether you want to blame it on ableism, or perhaps simply "you should name your software after something/someone ski…

I just treat it as an acronym, as do the current developers.

The original founders of the project aren't the ones at the helm currently and the GNU Image Manipulation Program acronym took over from whatever pun it was a long time ago already.

You might like krita better but maybe it is an insult or genital part name in someone else language but you might never know. It happens to so many products. The Toyota MR2 really sound in french like you are calling someone an asshole which is the reason they called it simply MR in that particular market, while an audi etron sounded like audi feces. All this to say that naming is hard and you can never please everyone.

People should really relax and not take personally what has been an acronym for most of the project's life.

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by orphea »

enriquto wrote: post #104
jrm4 wrote: post #94

Will continue to say it, this piece of software that could be a mainstream huge deal, a straight-up Adobe killer, will never do this unless it changes its name. I've mostly given up hope on this, but it's still wild that people who work on the software just seem to very stubbornly not understand this. Whether you want to blame it on ableism, or perhaps simply "you should name your software after something/someone ski…

> his piece of software (...) will never do this unless it changes its name. Why? Honestly, why? As a non-native English speaker (like the vast majority of people in this planet), the word "gimp" to me means "the free software image processing program". If I search google, duckduckgo, bing, whatever, the entire first page of results refers to that very program. Digging deeper, I start to find some references to the P…

  > Is there any other meaning to this word?
Yes. You can often learn obscure meanings by prepending a word in your search query with "urban dictionary".

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by chongli »

enriquto wrote: post #104
jrm4 wrote: post #94

Will continue to say it, this piece of software that could be a mainstream huge deal, a straight-up Adobe killer, will never do this unless it changes its name. I've mostly given up hope on this, but it's still wild that people who work on the software just seem to very stubbornly not understand this. Whether you want to blame it on ableism, or perhaps simply "you should name your software after something/someone ski…

> his piece of software (...) will never do this unless it changes its name. Why? Honestly, why? As a non-native English speaker (like the vast majority of people in this planet), the word "gimp" to me means "the free software image processing program". If I search google, duckduckgo, bing, whatever, the entire first page of results refers to that very program. Digging deeper, I start to find some references to the P…

A gimp is a man dressed in a bondage suit used for BDSM sexual roleplay. Gimps are considered inappropriate to even talk about in school and business settings. The GIMP software might as well have the name of a curse word like fuck or shit as far as its appropriateness in public discourse goes.

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by noisem4ker »

jrm4 wrote: post #94

Will continue to say it, this piece of software that could be a mainstream huge deal, a straight-up Adobe killer, will never do this unless it changes its name. I've mostly given up hope on this, but it's still wild that people who work on the software just seem to very stubbornly not understand this. Whether you want to blame it on ableism, or perhaps simply "you should name your software after something/someone ski…

There was an effort to rename it to Glimpse, with non-zero community and developer support, also solving a few common complaints about the user interface. It ultimately resulted in a dead fork, disproving not one but two hypotheses.

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by ryanmcbride »

enriquto wrote: post #104
jrm4 wrote: post #94

Will continue to say it, this piece of software that could be a mainstream huge deal, a straight-up Adobe killer, will never do this unless it changes its name. I've mostly given up hope on this, but it's still wild that people who work on the software just seem to very stubbornly not understand this. Whether you want to blame it on ableism, or perhaps simply "you should name your software after something/someone ski…

> his piece of software (...) will never do this unless it changes its name. Why? Honestly, why? As a non-native English speaker (like the vast majority of people in this planet), the word "gimp" to me means "the free software image processing program". If I search google, duckduckgo, bing, whatever, the entire first page of results refers to that very program. Digging deeper, I start to find some references to the P…

It's both a pejorative term for disabled people, and a specific type of bondage fetish.

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by noisem4ker »

snvzz wrote: post #38
archerx wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try Krita, it’s free, opensource and what gimp should have been all along.

Different focus. Krita is for free drawing, gimp is a photoshop replacement. I do agree they probably would benefit from trying Krita.

Krita is a better Photoshop than GIMP, in my opinion. I don't care what its intended usage is.

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by redeeman »

chongli wrote: post #113
enriquto wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> his piece of software (...) will never do this unless it changes its name. Why? Honestly, why? As a non-native English speaker (like the vast majority of people in this planet), the word "gimp" to me means "the free software image processing program". If I search google, duckduckgo, bing, whatever, the entire first page of results refers to that very program. Digging deeper, I start to find some references to the P…

A gimp is a man dressed in a bondage suit used for BDSM sexual roleplay. Gimps are considered inappropriate to even talk about in school and business settings. The GIMP software might as well have the name of a curse word like fuck or shit as far as its appropriateness in public discourse goes.

yeah well.. says more about those who even bring that up... most people probably dont know that

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by enriquto »

chongli wrote: post #113
enriquto wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> his piece of software (...) will never do this unless it changes its name. Why? Honestly, why? As a non-native English speaker (like the vast majority of people in this planet), the word "gimp" to me means "the free software image processing program". If I search google, duckduckgo, bing, whatever, the entire first page of results refers to that very program. Digging deeper, I start to find some references to the P…

A gimp is a man dressed in a bondage suit used for BDSM sexual roleplay. Gimps are considered inappropriate to even talk about in school and business settings. The GIMP software might as well have the name of a curse word like fuck or shit as far as its appropriateness in public discourse goes.

Thanks for the clarification (as well as the suggestion of looking at the urban dictionary, in the other comment).

My point is that when you say:

> Gimps are considered inappropriate to even talk about in school and business settings

This refers solely to the tiny percent of the world where people are native english speakers. Elsewhere, it already means the image processing software, if anything at all.

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by petee »

redeeman wrote: post #117
chongli wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A gimp is a man dressed in a bondage suit used for BDSM sexual roleplay. Gimps are considered inappropriate to even talk about in school and business settings. The GIMP software might as well have the name of a curse word like fuck or shit as far as its appropriateness in public discourse goes.

yeah well.. says more about those who even bring that up... most people probably dont know that

Anyone who's seen "Pulp Fiction", or hasnt been under a rock, or older than a young teen would have encountered the term or concept

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by veggieroll »

chongli wrote: post #113
enriquto wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> his piece of software (...) will never do this unless it changes its name. Why? Honestly, why? As a non-native English speaker (like the vast majority of people in this planet), the word "gimp" to me means "the free software image processing program". If I search google, duckduckgo, bing, whatever, the entire first page of results refers to that very program. Digging deeper, I start to find some references to the P…

A gimp is a man dressed in a bondage suit used for BDSM sexual roleplay. Gimps are considered inappropriate to even talk about in school and business settings. The GIMP software might as well have the name of a curse word like fuck or shit as far as its appropriateness in public discourse goes.

Literally, get over it. Even my (extremely conservative) church group doesn't have an issue with it. 1) because most people don't know BDSM terminology and 2) gimp has other connotations so it's not even obvious that was intended and 3) most people aren't terminally online and 100% don't care as long as the program works.

I've never had a problem sharing it. And no one outside tech has ever brought up BDSM when I tell them about the program or help them install it.

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