Something just occurred to me
- "GNU Imp" is a terrible program
- Also people are angry about the name
- By comparison Blender is actually kind of good now
- Also Blender has a cross platform GUI toolkit good enough it is now used by other applications (eg VCV Rack
Solve two problems at once: Build a 2D paint program on top of Blender's core libraries; name it Blimp
@mcc They just need to rename that thing to GNUtotshop or something. Anything would be better, I don't care if it's stupid.
Though, and I'm probably saying more about myself than I should, but I always visualize Gimp mask when I see the name, rather than interpreting the name as ableist, but that's not really an argument for keeping the name...
@Alex I don't think they should rename it I think they should discontinue it
@mcc I'd like to see it replaced first. The actual user count isn't known, but it is estimated to be in the millions, so I really don't see that project being retired without an alternative available. There aren't any other real FOSS Photoshop alternatives out there.
Though it is unfortunate how few improvements have been made to it over the past decade. It's basically already abandonware, even if it is "maintained".
