A group of activists who are dissatisfied with the negative associations arising from the word "gimp" a fork of the GIMP graphics editor, which will be developed under the name . It is noted that the fork was created after 13 years of attempts to convince developers to change their name, which strongly do it. The word gimp in some social groups of native English speakers is perceived as an insult and also has associated with the BDSM subculture.
According to the founders of the fork, the name change will make the project more popular in educational institutions, public libraries and corporate environments. For example, one of the users notes that he had to rename the GIMP shortcut on the desktop in order to avoid associations with his involvement in BDSM among colleagues. Problems with inappropriate classroom response to the name GIMP are also noted by teachers trying to use GIMP in the classroom.
The GIMP developers do not intend to change the name and believe that over the 20 years of the project's existence, its name has become widely known and in the computer environment is associated with a graphic editor (when searching Google, links that are not related to a graphic editor are found for the first time only on page 7 of search results ). In situations where using the GIMP name seems unacceptable, it is recommended to use the full name "GNU Image Manipulation Program" or generate assemblies with a different name.
Currently, three developers have joined the development of the fork (, ΠΈ ) who were not previously involved in the development of GIMP. At the initial stage of the project as a "downstream fork" following the main GIMP codebase. In September publish the first release of 0.1, which will differ from GIMP 2.10.12 only in a name change and rebranding. For Linux, it is planned to prepare builds in Flatpak and AppImage formats.
Further releases are expected to include new features related to the elimination of long-standing comments from users regarding the main graphical interface. These releases will be developed as a full fork ("hard fork"), which will periodically carry over innovations from the core GIMP codebase.
The first fully forked release is expected to be Glimpse 1.0, which will be based on the GIMP 3.0 codebase translated to use the GTK3 library. When preparing the next version of Glimpse 2.0, the developers intend to do a complete redesign of the interface and even the ability to choose another programming language for writing a new graphical frontend (the main contenders are D and Rust).
Source: opennet.ru