Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp in private schools and educational institutions

2015-04-28 Thread C R
We should call it GNUIMP (pronounced New-Imp). GIMP is just crushing recursive acronyms together ;) Seriously though, the fact that it's not commercial software is likely to be more of an issue than the name. Google is about the worst name I can think of for anything adults would use, yet it's

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP at Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 - Toronto, Canada, April 29 to May 2

2015-04-28 Thread Kevin
On 2015-04-28 14:57, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: Any tentative time set for the GIMP B.o.F. already? So that those of us who could not make it this year can follow on irc. I'm interested to know the day/time for any GIMP gathering at the LGM. I haven't yet decided which day I will make the long

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp in private schools and educational institutions

2015-04-28 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
28 апр. 2015 г. 8:22 пользователь Sam Bagot написал: Renames have worked in the past as I see it and for the most part, as I'm sure you've heard people consider before, a product named gimp can't succeed against a product named professionally like PhotoShop. We do not make GIMP to compete

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP at Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 - Toronto, Canada, April 29 to May 2

2015-04-28 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Any tentative time set for the GIMP B.o.F. already? So that those of us who could not make it this year can follow on irc. On 28 April 2015 at 03:08, Michael Schumacher schum...@gmx.de wrote: Hi all, as in most years, some of us are at the Libre Graphics Meeting. If you are in the area

Re: [Gimp-developer] Lack of accuracy

2015-04-28 Thread Ofnuts
On 27/04/15 14:19, Nicolas Robidoux wrote: By calc, you mean a layer mask? ___ In French a calque (*) is a layer. (*) calque is originally the word for a sheet of tracing paper. ___ gimp-developer-list

[Gimp-developer] GIMP at Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 - Toronto, Canada, April 29 to May 2

2015-04-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hi all, as in most years, some of us are at the Libre Graphics Meeting. If you are in the area around Toronto, Canada, and can easily get there, then consider to use this opportunity to meet us and many more people there: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2015/participants/ LGM is part meeting

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp in private schools and educational institutions

2015-04-28 Thread Ofnuts
The name is a blocker in some US schools with teachers or student parents that over-sensitive (and somewhat dirty-minded, since gimp has other meanings in English). By the way, one of the most popular Web server software is called Apache. In French, it is also slang for a street robber and