3 ms·
GIMP has the same problem. I recommended it to someone, and the first minute or two they thought I was joking until they said ‘wow, you are right, it actually h
by jorvi 5y ago
GIMP has the same problem. I recommended it to someone, and the first minute or two they thought I was joking until they said ‘wow, you are right, it actually has the fetish name’.
I know there was a push to have GIMP renamed GLIMP, but it went nowhere because “people shouldn’t be snowflakes lol”.
- mardifoufs 5y agoYeah names in FOSS are so self defeating sometimes. It might sound superficial to the more practical/technical people who are usually behind those projects... but it has a huge impact! It is starting to get better, and the era of naming everything after weird obscure inside joke acronyms seems to be behind us. (I get that we need to keep software fun, but you can have a lot of fun with nice names too!)
- kbelder 5y agoWith other devs I refer to it as GIMP, but sometimes in mixed company (management present) I'll call it "GNU IMP". Just partially expand the acronym.
- asddubs 5y agoGimp as a name still makes me laugh after all these years, whenever I actively think about it. You'd be hard pressed to find a worse name for your software. not only is it a fetish term, it's simultaneously also a slur against disabled people
- 2143 5y agoEnglish is not my first language. I didn't know what gimp meant, or that it even meant something. Never gave a thought about it before. TIL what it means. Expanded my vocabulary. Thanks buddy! I can now never not think about it whenever I hear gimp.