On 12/18/06, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/18/06, Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "Bring out The Gimp...." > How many people do you really think have seen that movie? For example, > English is my native language, and I've never heard this movie reference > until it was brought up repeatedly on this mailing list -- this is the third > thread I have encountered so far in which one or two people say 'this is > icky and bad' and most of the others either express that they don't care or > that they've never heard of such a way of using the word gimp; I still have > never seen or heard a reference in real life to Pulp Fiction or 'gimp'. > > I think that a name change *could* attract some sorely needed developers, > and users, too. If a movie reference is the reason you would like it > changed.. I think your perception is lacking. In my case, I just find 'gimp' > to be bland -- it's no fun to pronounce, it doesn't bring an image > immediately to mind, it's non-obvious what it does, and it is not engaging > (sillily or otherwise); on all these metrics I-Mage is superior.) > > >
I like GIMP...it throws people off, usually resulting in my explaining the software to them, which is basically a sales pitch on my end. I say keep it - true to many open source software packages that have abnormal names. As a developer I tend to take packages called "The Greatest *Whatever* Thing" with a grain of salt. Eventually, everthing gets abbreviated anyway: (more commonly referred to as "TGWT" by it's users, in this hypothetical situation. Anyway, instead of flaming, how about some suggestions: Gimptastic Gimptacular Gimpressive Gimpression Gimpified GIM(p|age) -- another attempt at backwards + forwards compatibility GIMPage Gnu Image Manipulator - GIM(p) --- for backwards compatibility -- Anthony Ettinger phone: 408-656-2473 resume: http://chovy.dyndns.org/resume.html Currently available for contract work blog: http://www.chovy.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
