gimp has an awful name. this is what gimp users actually believe:

The GIMP has been around under that name for going on 20 years. Its user base has grown exponentially worldwide, and the tool kit itself is standing on the brink of a quantum leap in capabilities. I see no signs that its name, which has positive brand recognition across a very large community of users, has held back the GIMP's market penetration in the least. At this time, a name change would be actively harmful to long established organic promotion that works very well.

fork idea: it's called "CocaCola: A Product for All Of Us". it's actually a very long acronym and not related to the delicious CocaCola beverage line at all :)

(edit: i use this program, i am a gimp user)

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cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote on August 13, 2018 at 4:13 PM (edited on August 13, 2018 at 4:14 PM)

The GIMP name helps the project associate two basic ideas in its user's minds,

A slur towards disabled people, particularly for a person whose body was damaged by crushing or twisting.
A weird sex thing, where the subject is unallowed to act in accordance with their own intelligence.

So when I hear the project called GIMP, my mental association with that project is "Broken, unintelligent, creepy". As such, I keep with the less feature-rich (and also badly named for virtually opposite reasons) Paint.Net.

Then, I remember using the GIMP software in college and I do remember that it was difficult to use and telling people about it getting me weird looks. So that helps reinforce "broken, unintelligent, creepy". It's just not a good name for 2018!

What if you called it Hassy? Is Hassy a good name?

twovests OP wrote on August 13, 2018 at 4:15 PM

so long as Hassy doesn't have the connotations GIMP has, then yes, it is a much better name

musou wrote on August 13, 2018 at 5:17 PM

i use that program but i don't believe that and would support a name change so that i can actually recommend that software to friends without feeling squicked out

twovests OP wrote on August 13, 2018 at 6:16 PM

oh i actually use it too and i love it

just

not the name

musou wrote on August 13, 2018 at 6:22 PM

yeah it's major garbo

Moonside wrote on August 14, 2018 at 5:33 AM

Naming things is truly one of the two hardest problems in software engineering.

The GIMP has been around under that name for going on 20 years. Its user base has grown exponentially worldwide, and the tool kit itself is standing on the brink of a quantum leap in capabilities. I see no signs that its name, which has positive brand recognition across a very large community of users, has held back the GIMP's market penetration in the least. At this time, a name change would be actively harmful to long established organic promotion that works very well.

Any "quantum leap in capabilities" is strictly inconsequential to naming, I hate nerds.

crypt_skid wrote on May 22, 2021 at 7:42 PM

Hey the fork is called GLIMPSE and its happening they're adding features, making it more intuitive and removing the awful branding.

The GIMP devs refuse to acknowledge the issues involved with their image so they can get forked. Fork 'em!

twovests OP wrote on May 22, 2021 at 9:56 PM

oh yeah!! thanks for this. i've heard of glimpse but it definitely wasn't around at this time. i use it now whenever i want to use GIMP in a professional context