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>for coders https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/01/27/gimp-team-zemarmot-fosdem-2025/ https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/01/27/gimp-team-zemarmot-fosd... Gimp is being

by homarp 2y ago

>for coders https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/01/27/gimp-team-zemarmot-fosdem-2025/ https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/01/27/gimp-team-zemarmot-fosd... Gimp is being used,and improved along the way, to make an animation movie. Jehan (scenarist, technical) of that movie is also a core maintainer.

npteljes 2y ago
Gimp is nearing 30 years old, and it has been used for at most a handful of animation movies. I think, regarding its usage, that this is more of an outlier, than a main purpose of the software. So I don't think that this example refutes OP's point.
- homarp 2y ago
  and I think otherwise https://girinstud.io/news/2018/04/zemarmot-main-contributor-of-gimp-2-10-0-rc1/ https://girinstud.io/news/2018/04/zemarmot-main-contributor-...
  - npteljes 2y ago
    I do know about the movie, and having one (upcoming even) movie being made about GIMP doesn't say anything about its usage, or it not being made for coders. Being made for coders is a bad claim as well, at most, it's a jab at its user interface, which, I think, is no worse then Photoshop's by the way, it's just that people are familiar with one, and the not the other. A good refutal of the for-coders claim would be that it's one of the default image editor most commonly included with major Linux distributions. That's a much larger thing than it being just made for coders.
    - npteljes 2y ago
      s/about GIMP/with GIMP/
    - prmoustache 2y ago
      > I do know about the movie, and having one (upcoming even) movie being made about GIMP doesn't say anything about its usage, or it not being made for coders. Yes it does because ZeMarmot producers are the main contributors to Gimp's code.
      - npteljes 2y ago
        GIMP's initial release was in June 2, 1998. ZeMarmot's announcement was in 05 February 2015. The GIMP was an at least 17 year old software project, when the animated movie was announced. Of the two main GIMP maintainers, one of them works on ZeMarmot. What this all says is that yes, there is an animation movie 10 years in the making, by some of the people who also work on the GIMP project. It says nothing about GIMP being made for any particular purpose, either or not for coders, and/or for animation or for visual creatives in particular.

by homarp 2y ago

npteljes 2y ago

Gimp is nearing 30 years old, and it has been used for at most a handful of animation movies. I think, regarding its usage, that this is more of an outlier, than a main purpose of the software. So I don't think that this example refutes OP's point.

homarp 2y ago
and I think otherwise https://girinstud.io/news/2018/04/zemarmot-main-contributor-of-gimp-2-10-0-rc1/ https://girinstud.io/news/2018/04/zemarmot-main-contributor-...
- npteljes 2y ago
  I do know about the movie, and having one (upcoming even) movie being made about GIMP doesn't say anything about its usage, or it not being made for coders. Being made for coders is a bad claim as well, at most, it's a jab at its user interface, which, I think, is no worse then Photoshop's by the way, it's just that people are familiar with one, and the not the other. A good refutal of the for-coders claim would be that it's one of the default image editor most commonly included with major Linux distributions. That's a much larger thing than it being just made for coders.
  - npteljes 2y ago
    s/about GIMP/with GIMP/
  - prmoustache 2y ago
    > I do know about the movie, and having one (upcoming even) movie being made about GIMP doesn't say anything about its usage, or it not being made for coders. Yes it does because ZeMarmot producers are the main contributors to Gimp's code.
    - npteljes 2y ago
      GIMP's initial release was in June 2, 1998. ZeMarmot's announcement was in 05 February 2015. The GIMP was an at least 17 year old software project, when the animated movie was announced. Of the two main GIMP maintainers, one of them works on ZeMarmot. What this all says is that yes, there is an animation movie 10 years in the making, by some of the people who also work on the GIMP project. It says nothing about GIMP being made for any particular purpose, either or not for coders, and/or for animation or for visual creatives in particular.