GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Actually, someone did, changing the name to “Glimpse”. They announced it as an explicit fork that would continue development under the new name.

    As far as I know, that’s as far as they got.

    • bitfucker@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      To be fair, if the fork sole purpose is to just re-label the software and make people that have irks because of the name start to use the software, who are we to judge?

      • khaleer@sopuli.xyz
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        4 months ago

        People use Photoshop, but there is no shop and any photo in it at all (at least not when I was usin it, maybe they built in microtransactions already)

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Shop as in workshop, presumably.

          I don’t think that’s quite equivalent to having your name be gimp, which means, depending on definition, a fetishist in a full body latex suit who generally wants to be degraded or injured for sexual satisfaction, or a slur term for the severely disabled.