Rename GIMP? What do you think?

GnuTux · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:15 pm **(#1)**

http://polldaddy.com/poll/5447110/
I'm fine with GIMP but the poll is split. :gimp

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12833

I say keep it GIMP; hate change for the sake of change. Besides, I don't want to change Wilber with an IMP.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:34 am **(#3)**

Makes no sense to me. :gimp

Griatch · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 3:21 am **(#4)**

Regardless of the outcome of the poll, a name change won't happen anyway. This is not a popularity contest but a matter of convincing all lead developers to change an identity that has served us all well for 16 years and counting.

People complaining about the name should fork their own version of the code and distribute it with a snazzier name rather than expect people to do it for them. Welcome to the world of open source.

(and as far as I know, the program was never actually called "The Gimp" but GIMP, Gnu Image Manipulation Program, a perfectly fine name).
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Griatch

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

There was a very inferior package called Gimpshop that was supposed to be a user friendly edition in place of Photoshop, but it didn't go anywhere and a lot of people confused it with Gimp.
Gimpshop

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12833

Like the Donald, The GIMP is a way of giving the program a bit of respect Griatch. lol

Willy · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:12 am **(#7)**

I think it should stay the same as gimp is easy to remember and as griatch said it has done the program well for 16 years

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:14 am **(#8)**

A fun program needs a fun name. Gimp is good and its well recognised. Photoshop with character!

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12833

I sort of like the name GIMP too since it implies that even a crippled (metaphorically speaking of course) user can use it. May not be true (lol), but it's at least not an intimidating name (to me anyway).

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

I prefer it to stay the same "Gimp".
It's well known already.

Besides do you know how many website domain names would have to be changed to reflect that change? :lol

saulgoode · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 6:04 pm **(#11)**

Rod wrote:

Besides do you know how many website domain names would have to be changed to reflect that change? :lol

Not to mention the more than four hundred seventy-five thousand occurrences of the name in the source that would need changing.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

saulgoode wrote:

Rod wrote:

Besides do you know how many website domain names would have to be changed to reflect that change? :lol

Not to mention the more than four hundred seventy-five thousand occurrences of the name in the source that would need changing.

Yeah i wouldn't wanna be the one to have to do that. :lol

Notepad ++ rename in all open docs is your friend in cases such as that.

RobA · **Joined:** Jul 14, 2010 **Posts:** 697

This is just a silly discussion that pops up like springtime weeds.

Funny, as the first term I can recall the term gimp (outside of the software) was when my then grade three kids came home with gimp that they were using to make keychains as an art project at school... No one in the school seemed to have a problem with the name...

http://edtoyout.com/catalog/index.php?c ... d0a20fd6c8

Apparently it is also called "boondoggle"

-Rob A>

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

interesting.