Still no smart objects/non-destructive editing? :(
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That's pretty cool
I'm not sure if that was intended, but string "freeze" is really "cool".
I'm so excited! Will it not suck completely? Maybe!
can they unfreeze the name?
They won't. It's an old topic and they are clear about not changing the name. Anyone having a problem can fork and rename the project. But it seems not to be a big issue that nobody wants to do it.
I believe that there is a project that aims to do just this but I can't remember its name.
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I know people like it, but I agree.
And as silly as it sounds, I think the name is a big part of why businesses haven't ever wanted to touch the project or invest in it.
Imagine telling your average upper management guy or board member that you want your workers to use software called gimp. They're probably not gonna want to hear you out.
Anecdotally I know of a local NHS practice that refused to use GIMP, and was even sceptical of other subsequent suggestions of other FOSS due to the terrible impression they got from the GIMP name during a pitch to use more FOSS.
I get it's their identity, their project. Nobody has the right to dictate the name but them. But it's also fair to point out that they probably shot themselves in the foot by giving their software a juvenile and weirdly fetishy name.
Why doesn't someone just fork it and change the name?
Like, I dunno, "Super Human Image Treatment" or "Consistently Lovely Image Treatment Oriented for Real Imaging Stars"
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.
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Fuck yeah! Go GIMP! Also announced on Mastodon fwiw:
https://floss.social/@GIMP/112995553132226800
I'm super excited about 3.0 🪇
Isn't this the version where they pinky promised there will be CMYK support?
<ducks, runs>
From https://developer.gimp.org/core/roadmap/ for GIMP 3.0:
Space invasion (work in progress):
Various color management improvements, CMYK support (not as core image format, but import/export and picking/choosing/viewing)…
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okay I'll bite, what does "string freeze" mean here?
They've committed to not changing any displayed text ("strings"), so that translators have time to translate everything.
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Will there be a big party where we can be baked
There will be grilled bell peppers.
Place your bets, are we getting GIMP 3 before 2025?
I'm on Slackware so I won't be getting it this decade 😅
Sure, it's just another tarball to compile and install, right? What do you mean lots of dependencies? Oh, well, I guess there is Krita :)
If we're in string freeze, it's probably within a few weeks. They're in bug squashing and translations mode now. I'd take that bet.