• hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    2986·
    2 months ago

    We honestly should rename GIMP. It’s a bad name. I think a new and better acronym would substantially improve brand recognition. Something like:

    Free Utility for Creative Kits, Brushes, Overlays, & Imaging

    FUCKBOI

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      79·
      2 months ago

      Free FOSS Utility for Creative Kits Brushes, Overlays, & Imaging

      You forgot that for whatever reason we have to have an acronym in our acronym.

    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
      26·
      2 months ago

      This individual for position of authority! I endorse this.

    • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      25·
      2 months ago

      There was a fork that did nothing but replace the name and graphics to GLIMPSE

      The gimp oss community is really fucking rabid about NOT EVER changing the name

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        43·
        2 months ago

        Probably because they never thought to change it to FUCKBOI.

      • vivendi@programming.devEnglish
        163·
        2 months ago

        Based, Tbh

        We shouldn’t fuck ourselves to the sensibilities of sterile bullshit corporate AmeriKKKa

    • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      I genuinely believe Fedora would be far more popular if it had a different name

          • xylol@leminal.space
            18·
            2 months ago

            TIL I always imagine the guy in the basement of the shop in the movie pulp fiction

              • SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
                21·
                2 months ago

                How do you come to that conclusion? He was a guy in a full on latex-BDSM suit on a leash, that they kept in a box in the basement.

                We don’t learn much about his character or mental ability in the movie. It is much more likely, that he was called a gimp in the BDSM sense, that is also mentioned in the Wiktionary entry that was linked here.

                • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  pretty sure that use of the term originated with that exact movie scene.

                  There’s also a point where the gimp tries to speak and it’s pretty clear he has at least a speech impediment if not a mental disability.

              • xylol@leminal.space
                41·
                2 months ago

                I just figured because he was abducted chained and abused in a basement I didn’t realize, that makes it even more sad

          • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            wait, it’s a synonym of “nerd”? huh.

  • froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    973·
    2 months ago

    created an image editor

    named it GIMP

    mascot is a furry face in a black leather mask with a brush in the mouth

    is open source community okay?

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      70·
      2 months ago

      mascot is a furry face in a black leather mask

      That’s what you see?

      I think a few Rorschach tests might be in your future.

    • cepelinas@sopuli.xyz
      17·
      2 months ago

      That face doesn’t even look remotely like a furry that is closer to a boomerang or an actual wolf than a furry.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
      27·
      2 months ago

      I love fuck! I can never be bothered creating upstream Git branches when I’ve branched locally, I just type git push and it complains there’s no upstream, and then I type fuck and it does it for me.

      • Buckshot@programming.dev
        12·
        2 months ago

        Set push.autoSetupRemote in your gitconfig and it’ll do it first time

      • frosch@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        2 months ago

        There is also a zsh-Plugin for the fuck. That way you can just double hit esc and zsh… uhm… fucks… automatically for you

      • slampisko@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        You can also type git push origin HEAD and it also does that

          • slampisko@lemmy.world
            31·
            2 months ago

            It’s less typing but technically it’s one more request to the server which you have to wait for to fail before the correct request can be fucked, so it might be faster to do it the correct way from the get-go. Especially if you’ve done it before and you can just Ctrl+R and find it in the history, or you have a git alias (e.g. git phead)

            • Zagorath@aussie.zone
              2·
              2 months ago

              No, your local Git knows the branch isn’t tracking any upstream branch, so it never makes a request to the server.

    • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Reading that, and you just know there’s a Linux distro that has fucking as an alias for sudo

  • Garyx23x@lemmy.world
    3811·
    2 months ago

    Also sorta funny since one of the best drawing apps for iPad is literally called procreate and agreed

  • canajac@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    The Gimp is sleeping Well we’re just gonna have to wake him up.

    • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      2 months ago

      This is en outrage!

      Coq was such an excellent name. Short, memorable, unique, related to its origins and logo, as well as funny.

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
      9·
      2 months ago

      “to procreate” means to reproduce, or breed, in english.

        • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
          241·
          2 months ago

          There is literally a drawing app called procreate. Nothing about this joke is forced, it’s just a direct observation.

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Procreate means to reproduce.

      The counterpoint references yhe fact that the GNU version is Gimp which is a term also used to refer to a submissive in an extreme fetish related domain.

      • x0x7@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        More traditionally it refers to someone with a limp.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    2725·
    2 months ago

    GIMP doesn’t mean anything though (besides for GNU Image Manipulation Program)? Why are you bringing it up?

  • mrwrinkles@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    What the hell is wrong with GNU Imp? And a little devil mascot? Problem solved.