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Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades

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The slow and steady climb to 3.0 culminates in the most modernized version of GIMP yet.

Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26156649

The slow and steady climb to 3.0 culminates in the most modernized version of GIMP yet.

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Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades

www.tomshardware.com /software/free-open-source-photoshop-alternative-finally-enters-release-candidate-testing-after-20-years-the-transition-from-gimp-2-x-to-gimp-3-0-took-two-decades

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Pity about the cringey name.
- It's an acronym: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
  
  yeah but it apparently has some disgusting meaning that I always forget as a non-native english user
  
  As a native English speaker I didn't know "gimp" was more than a nonsense word and a lowercase version of this program until your comment. I admit I grew up sheltered and that probably influenced what slang terms, especially unkind ones, I learned about, but otherwise I don't consider myself particularly deficient in the vocabulary department.
  Offensive word for someone with a physical disability or leg injury, a stupid person, or (not sure if it's okay in this context) a submissive person in BDSM activities, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.
  
  Seems more like a backronym to me, they could've picked something better.
  
  Like GNU Linux Image Enhancement Manager
  
  There was a fork with a different name. It bombed.
  
  Well you don't fork a project just to rename it, that's not why it would have bombed.
  
  The Glimpse Editor project shut down because there weren’t enough contributors, and the founder didn’t have enough time to do everything.
  https://web.archive.org/web/20210531113823/https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/a-project-on-hiatus/
  …and yeah it wasn’t just a rename, their github readme suggests they were making UX, accessibility, settings, and plugin changes to make it “enterprise ready” (not sure on the specific details of that though).
  https://web.archive.org/web/20210729071541/https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse
  
  Glimpse is a much better name, though.
  
  It really is.
  
  Dunno why you're being downvoted. It's very obviously deliberately chosen to make 12 year olds giggle.
- Yeah.
  The project name embodies several of the worst aspects of the FOSS community, and none of the best.
  It's a shared embarrassment, by association, to many of us.

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