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Eh, every term for disabled people becomes a slur. Moron->idiot->retard (the latter being so unacceptable in modern speech it is labelled by the kids as "the hard r"). But you are right, we should simply not use terms for disabled people in software names. I propose "Thirty Years and Still Cannot Draw a Circle" or the hip short name :no-entry-sign: emoji.
Tangent, but it might help you avoid an embarrassing situation later on. If someone says "They called me the hard-R", they're not talking about the R-word. "R----d" is usually just called "the R word", while "the hard R" refers specifically to the standard version of "the N word". (As opposed to "the soft A", which is sometimes used synonymous with "dude".)
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tangent, but it might help you avoid an embarrassing situation later on. If someone says "They called me the hard-R", they're not talking about the R-word. "R----d" is usually just called "the R word", while "the hard R" refers specifically to the standard version of "the N word". (As opposed to "the soft A", which is sometimes used synonymous with "dude".)
hard R = ends in 'a' soft R = ends in 'er' ? or am i wrong
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You can draw arrows with the pencil or paintbrush.
Not if you're a professional in a big boy company, where the MacOS users can literally draw a perfect arrow in 2 seconds on any image, without installing a thing. You're just going to look completely incompetent.
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Sorry, a focus on thirty year old movies and "ableist slur"s puts you far outside the mainstream. These are simply not concerns of every day people, and doubly so for the half that voted tRump.
No need to apologize, you didn't know. In either case, it doesn't matter whether or not Pulp Fiction is "mainstream". It does not matter what you think. It does not matter what I think. No amount of condescending comments online can go back and change it, the name "GIMP" has caused problems for people, including me, when trying to use it in professional and K-12 contexts. The ways I personally learned people took off…
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No need to apologize, you didn't know. In either case, it doesn't matter whether or not Pulp Fiction is "mainstream". It does not matter what you think. It does not matter what I think. No amount of condescending comments online can go back and change it, the name "GIMP" has caused problems for people, including me, when trying to use it in professional and K-12 contexts. The ways I personally learned people took off…
Thank you for this. I hate doing "offense aside" but. Offense aside, you can still understand that this is a bad idea without bringing in the spectre of "is it offensive." Like I'm saying elsewhere, what if it was called "Poop-edit" or similar? People would quite reasonably not believe it to be quality software, even if it was.
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Not if you're a professional in a big boy company, where the MacOS users can literally draw a perfect arrow in 2 seconds on any image, without installing a thing. You're just going to look completely incompetent.
This is not a significant concern of anyone I've met, and if it was I'd look at them as incompetent.
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Tangent, but it might help you avoid an embarrassing situation later on. If someone says "They called me the hard-R", they're not talking about the R-word. "R----d" is usually just called "the R word", while "the hard R" refers specifically to the standard version of "the N word". (As opposed to "the soft A", which is sometimes used synonymous with "dude".)
That sounds preposterous, it's the same word no matter your accent. I am sticking to my version.
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> Respectfully, that's kind of a ridiculous "impression," easily refuted by many of us who have wanted to recommend GIMP to people. Is it though? Almost every time the topic is discussed, I see someone in the comments only then learning that the word is also known by some as a slur. > Like, if the word "poop" was in the name of some otherwise good software. Except that ‘poop’ is a common word with a single common mea…
I think "Do people commonly understand 'gimp' as a derogatory word?" is the wrong question. The right question is, "Did _enough_ people understand 'gimp' as a derogatory word to harm its adoption?" and the answer is probably yes. The people complaining about GIMP's name are the ones who love and use it, who have seen the name cause problems. There's a modicum of grief for the counterfactual (of how much better GIMP m…
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#189Thank you so so much! I cant stand Gimp UI, so not intuitive. And over 25 years of Photoshop use has me locked into a way that image editing should work. This is fantastic and timely.
After 25 years of Photoshop, is it really intuition, or is it just habit?
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#190How do we get this into mainline GIMP? As a GIMP user since it existed, I can say that the default interface "works" but the ux isn't great. This looks like a marked improvement and would give me something more like Inkscapes UI but for raster images instead of vector...
If they were going to mimic a more Photoshop-like UI by default, they would've done it. GIMPshop was around over two decades ago