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LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

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Re: LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

#32

Post by lukan »

kleiba wrote: post #27
m12k wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just wish more of these projects would be a bit more ambitious and put more focus in their communication on being good at what they do, rather than being free and made by idealists. They're branding themselves in a way that only really appeals to other techy idealists, while accidentally putting off a lot of potential users who are neither technical nor philosophical enough to know or care what a term like libre me…

I think there's some truth to what you say - at the same time, a lot of successful products have names that basically have no meaning at all, or at least none that's related to what the project actually does ("Windows", "Cursor", "Firefox", etc...) Of course, a point could be made that any inoffensive but basically fluffy name is still better than a geeky sounding tech babble name...

The most succesful open source projects (firefox, blender, linux, krita,..) do not have libre in their name, the most famous of those who have is probably libreoffice, but it is not exactly loved.

So I totally agree on rather having a name that appeals normal users, than a certain tech bubble who will rather use the terminal wherever they can anyway ..

Re: LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

#34

Post by kleiba »

lukan wrote: post #32
kleiba wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's some truth to what you say - at the same time, a lot of successful products have names that basically have no meaning at all, or at least none that's related to what the project actually does ("Windows", "Cursor", "Firefox", etc...) Of course, a point could be made that any inoffensive but basically fluffy name is still better than a geeky sounding tech babble name...

The most succesful open source projects (firefox, blender, linux, krita,..) do not have libre in their name, the most famous of those who have is probably libreoffice, but it is not exactly loved. So I totally agree on rather having a name that appeals normal users, than a certain tech bubble who will rather use the terminal wherever they can anyway ..

Hey, no terminal shaming here!

Re: LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

#36

Post by whywhywhywhy »

PowerElectronix wrote: post #3
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #2

Begging open source projects to stop with the libre convention, it's awkward to say, it's cringe and seems to spiritually doom a project to fail.

That's like asking a EU product to not be named Euro-{product}.

Also cringe and tainted.

Re: LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

#37

Post by notachatbot123 »

piekvorst wrote: post #11
notachatbot123 wrote: post #9

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Yes, that is one of the major offenders. It is very awkward to pronounce in many languages.

I speak two languages (English and Russian) and have never found their name to be awkward. This is the first time, actually, that I've seen somebody say they don't like their name.

A good indicator is that the Wikipedia page even has pronounciation information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

What other major software has that?

Re: LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

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Post by captainregex »

KaiserPister wrote: post #35

I'll shill this project again: I built myself a small sprite generator because I'm a terrible artist. If you're looking for pixel-art sprites, check out 8bitsmith.com. Or you can just ask Nano-Banana for sprite sheets and it does a pretty good job!

I have really struggled to get nano banana to follow size/proportion ratios for sprite art. any tips? I fed in a bunch of examples first and tried to write a really strict prompt. I wonder if any of the sw being discussed here can be programmatically controlled by claude code or similar to do sprite work

Re: LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

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Post by bloak »

notachatbot123 wrote: post #37
piekvorst wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I speak two languages (English and Russian) and have never found their name to be awkward. This is the first time, actually, that I've seen somebody say they don't like their name.

A good indicator is that the Wikipedia page even has pronounciation information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice What other major software has that?

> What other major software has that?

Linux?

EDIT: Also Qt, MySQL, SQLite, GIMP (rather unnecessarily), ...

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