Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Alexia Death
This thread makes me want to draw Wilber in spandex and some cuffs and pehaps Gegl with a whip ;)... too bad it would be going too far to make something like that a dev splash. --Alexia ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.ED

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Jakub Friedl
In case the "no name change" policy is ever dropped, I have a suggestion for the new name: Perfect Image Manipulation Program It should fix all the problems :) On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Chris Mohler wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM, John B wrote: > > > IMO this would be a valid

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Alexia Death
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jakub Friedl wrote: > In case the "no name change" policy is ever dropped, I have a suggestion for > the new name: > > Perfect Image Manipulation Program > > It should fix all the problems :) Indeed! Lets make it one better. Home&Office Perfect Image Manipulation

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:59:28AM +1030, David Gowers wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM, vabijou2 wrote: > > So just because some old farts in Scotland may have good associations with > > the word, you think that renders the rest of the English-speaking world's > > interpretation silly?  

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Natterer
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 09:22 +0200, Alexia Death wrote: > This thread makes me want to draw Wilber in spandex and some cuffs and > pehaps Gegl with a whip ;)... too bad it would be going too far to > make something like that a dev splash. Why would that go too far? Please go ahead! regards, --mitc

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Cristian Secară
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:19:57 -0400, Jakub Friedl wrote: > In case the "no name change" policy is ever dropped, I have a > suggestion for the new name: > > Perfect Image Manipulation Program > > It should fix all the problems :) Can't wait for the next day comments after this name change, when s

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
Have you looked at the meanings of the word "pimp"? If no, you will really be surprised. On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:19:57 -0400, Jakub Friedl wrote: >> In case the "no name change" policy is ever dropped, I have a >> suggestion for the new name: >> >> Perfect Image Manipulation Program >> >> It sho

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Jakub Friedl
You've somehow missed the emoticon at the end of my post... But your reaction makes me want to officialy announce this name change exactly 154 days from now... :D 2009/10/29 Cristian Secară > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:19:57 -0400, Jakub Friedl wrote: > > > In case the "no name change" policy is eve

[Gimp-developer] Save + Export proposal

2009-10-29 Thread Nicolas Robidoux
An idea (especially for when GIMP moves to GEGL). Apologies if this has been suggested/shot down before. I think that the following terminology would be fairly clear to users: Save IMAGE (basically, export to a non-xcf format) Save PROJECT (save the xcf/gegl tree) Save WORKSPACE (save th

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Stephen Griffiths wrote: > If the argument for keeping the name is seriously that the project > branding is valuable, why don't we write that in the FAQ? Purely coincidentally it's been in the FAQ for years. Alexandre _

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
2009/10/29 Alexander Rabtchevich wrote: >  Have you looked at the meanings of the word "pimp"? If no, you will > really be surprised. Just in case, "irony" has very little to do with iron and metals :) Alexandre ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-deve

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Patrick Horgan
Stephen Griffiths wrote: > ... elision by Patrick > The name GIMP is not so invaluable that it cannot be changed, also there > is a massive number of outsiders who find the name truly unappealing, I > do not hear the raw of the people saying they love the name. > You can hear my raw here. I lov

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Stephen Griffiths
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 15:27 -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote: > Stephen Griffiths wrote: > > ... elision by Patrick > > The name GIMP is not so invaluable that it cannot be changed, also there > > is a massive number of outsiders who find the name truly unappealing, I > > do not hear the raw of the peop

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name "Gimp"

2009-10-29 Thread Stephen Griffiths
I really mistook the what Patrick was saying here (of which he was kind enough to make me aware of privately), I apologise for reacting so quickly. I think I have already said what I meant to say in the first two posts and will take the time to bow out from any further participation. regards, Ste