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Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by jcelerier »

petee wrote: post #119
redeeman wrote: post #117

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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

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

As a french, the first and only thing that comes to mind when I hear the word "gimp" is the software, not the kink. It was shared a few weeks ago in my company chat because someone wanted to do a photo edit and absolutely no one even made any semblance of joke related to it

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by enriquto »

jrm4 wrote: post #166
veggieroll wrote: post #120

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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 tel…

Sigh. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. An extremely conservative church group is perhaps the worst place to try to figure this out; y'all will self-censor naturally. Anyway, I teach IT, in a department -- shared with Communications -- and can absolutely assure you that this name is a no-go. I get that people don't like "politics" and "optics" and such, but that's what's happening here.

This is something that non-english speakers have long learned to live with. It is due time that everybody accepts that some words will sound funny to them. In french, for example, "bit" means "penis". This creates quite a stir when you teach computer science to kids. Yet nobody says that computer science is a no-go!

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by beezlewax »

darkwater wrote: post #62
beezlewax wrote: post #57

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It's fairly idiotic at this stage that this has never been changed. Highly damaging to the products outward appearance.

Then, when the announcement of the name change is on the HN frontpage, tens of HNers will post their anger "the name was already well-known, this is a marketing disaster!! They should know better!" Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Yes but those people would be wrong in this case.

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by mamonoleechi »

10729287 wrote: post #2

I really want Gimp to succeed. It's a software I've been trying to use since more than 20 years now but the UX is so clunky.... and different than Photoshop. Muscle Memory is a thing. I'm moving my main machine from macOS to Linux (which I also used partially since 20years), moving from a mac mini M1 to a lovely Lenovo M75Q-1 and so far the experience has been great. I'm a (enthusiast) photographer and I have big hop…

I switched from Photoshop CS to Gimp, and it took me 5 years at the time :) I kept on working on CS for that time, and ran gimp on the side on a VM running linux (it was the crunchbang distribution, a cool debian distrib).

Gimp's Dotfiles on Linux are really well done, once your settings are done, you keep them forever (i barely changed them now for a decade).

I was really used to Photoshop (used it from photoshop 4 to CS) ; a good idea would be to change Gimp's bindings to the one you have on photoshop.

Some stuff won't work as well as Photoshop, the best is to experiment, and find alternatives maybe not in the most optimal way.

I used to produce pictures, and then tried to do the same thing on Gimp, using the same source files. Stopping when I was stuck, trying to find other ways to work.

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by Andrex »

DonnieBurger wrote: post #155
cmyk_student wrote: post #143

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I think it's already been ported, based on https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/1i99ze0/resynthesizer...

Thank you for that link! I've installed 3.0.0-RC3 and so far I'm pleased. I've noticed a few new behaviors like moving multiple layers now with shift instead of the previous layer link.

3.0 felt a little weird for the first day or two, but as someone who likewise has used Gimp mostly for web stuff for (almost) 20 years, I really like 3.0 compared to 2.x so far. Text is slightly more finicky but way more powerful, for instance.

Re: Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

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Post by veggieroll »

jrm4 wrote: post #166
veggieroll wrote: post #120

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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 tel…

Sigh. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. An extremely conservative church group is perhaps the worst place to try to figure this out; y'all will self-censor naturally. Anyway, I teach IT, in a department -- shared with Communications -- and can absolutely assure you that this name is a no-go. I get that people don't like "politics" and "optics" and such, but that's what's happening here.

I didn't say no-one gets upset by the name. I said that they're being silly gooses.

If your department wouldn't use free software because of the name, that's very much a them problem. And it's sad that they're so sensitive.

If you don't like the name, you don't have to use the software. Or fork it can call it something more anodyne to your sensibilities.

But no. You want everyone to cater to sensitive people. And thus, myself and others are here to say your comment is annoying when this comes up every thread that GIMP is mentioned.

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