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> There has been plenty of forks of GIMP, but none really picked up steam. It has been forked over the name, over the UI not being close enough to Photoshop and
by inferiorhuman 8y ago
> There has been plenty of forks of GIMP, but none really picked up steam. It has been forked over the name, over the UI not being close enough to Photoshop and over core features like high-bitdepth support.
If memory serves the KDE guys did a port of GIMP to Qt but eventually dropped it due to all the teeth gnashing on the Gtk side.
- boudewijnrempt 8y agoIt was just a tech demo for a conference, but yeah, the reception was not friendly, to say the least, along the lines of "How did you dare to hack on Gimp, doing this, without doing us the courtesy of asking for permission first!" I wasn't there, back then, but gosh, people were young! See https://marc.info/?l=gimp-developer&m=90221516927992&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=gimp-developer&m=90221516927992&w=2
- emilsedgh 8y agoThat is one hell of a thread! I've been involved in KDE Community in the past 10-15 years and I'd never seen so much bad blood between developers of both communities publicly. It shows that the flame wars that still continue to this day had a root.