Gimp vs GNU Image Manipulation Program

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 13:09:20 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:23 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  > 2008/3/26 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
>  > > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 20:09 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  > >  > I'm a linux only user and I find "GNU Image Manipulation..." a
>  > >  > non-sane name, as long as I know about Gimp and in all presentations
>  > >  > and tutorials the term that is used is Gimp. Look at book covers,
>  > >  > "Gimp book" not "Gnu image..." is on their covers, try google also...
>  > >  > let's be practical please.
>  > >
>  > >  I suggest you have this conversation upstream with GIMP since they're
>  > >  the ones that changed the menu name.
>  > >
>  >
>  > My gut feeling tells me that they will tell that fedora can change the
>  > name to gimp if that fits better,
>
>  As I already said, this is not practicable as we need to care for all
>  languages. AFAIK, we don't have infrastructure for forked translatable
>  strings.
>
>
>  > most upstream gnome people to who I
>  > talked to told me that on such minor things gnome lets downstream
>  > customize as they need for them.
>  >
>  > I'll talk to upstream and report back and tell you if my gut feeling
>  > was spot on or wrong.
>
>  Do you plan to do that via mail (gimp-developer at lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU)
>  or via IRC (#gimp @ GIMPNet)? If the latter, it would be nice if you
>  could ping me (my nick is "nils") as I may have something to add about
>  the technical aspects (.desktop files etc.).
>
>
>  Nils

I was wrong.

Developers want this so that "GNU Image Manipulation Program" name
gets more know. I argued that that is killing their already
established "GIMP" brand name but that is it. They also said that
Fedora could always patch it if that is what Fedora Project decides...

My personal opinions still stands but at lease we know what is the
upstream opinion regarding naming.

Cheers,
Valent.

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