Freeware image editor GIMP 3.0 arrives after seven years of incubation

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Amazing development cycle :smile:

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I do wish there was a decent Paint.NET for Linux so I could edit screen captures quickly. GIMP and Inkscape are not as efficient for or focused on everyday needs.

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Guess they gave up on their politically correct name change.

I still use it for simple tasks, minimally where I still get confused with photoshops layout from 20 years past.

All the same, really appreciate it as a free to use tool.

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I was completely unaware of this :laughing:

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As a Silver sponsor for ZeMarmot and occasional user of GIMP, this is great to see.

(I personally think they should change the name anyway to get rid of all the baggage associated with it once it can ā€œdraw circlesā€; if it can work for Meta, why not GIMP?)

I donā€™t think the GIMP team ever decided to change the name. There was the Glimpse fork, which, along with the obvious name change (which is much harder to search for), also had ambitions of improving the UI. Activity for it died off years ago.

Iā€™ve heard people like Pinta as a Paint.NET replacement. Actually, Iā€™ve heard they donā€™t, but itā€™s the closest weā€™ve got on Linux.

Thereā€™s also Swappy for screenshots.

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Yep, to clarify- I only saw external voices suggesting a name change, though at some point a few years back it was fairly prominent news.

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Yeah, that would have been right around the time I got into Linux for the first time.

The GIMP developerā€™s firm position has always been available on their website: GIMP - Frequently Asked Questions

With all due respect, no.

Weā€™ve been using the name GIMP for more than 20 years and itā€™s widely known.

Finally, if you still have strong feelings about the name ā€œGIMPā€, you should feel free to promote the use of the long form GNU Image Manipulation Program or exercise your software freedom to fork and rebrand GIMP.

As someone who has been following GIMP development fairly closely over the years, Iā€™ve seen some users express thoughts that ā€œ3.0 would be a good time to change the nameā€. I donā€™t really agree with thatā€”after implementation of vector shapes, maybe. Iā€™ve heard people donā€™t use GIMP in educational environments because of the name.

I donā€™t think the name is the reason it isnā€™t used in educational environments or businesses. Iā€™ve heard a lot of complaints about GIMP over the years, and the name isnā€™t even in the top 5. I mean, now that a lot of those complaints have been addressed with the latest release, it probably is in the top 5.

The place Iā€™ve most seen GIMP used is actually in manga fan scanlation. There are so many GIMP guides out there from the 2000s.

ā€¦anyway, I doubt the name will be changing any time soon. I donā€™t really think about it beyond finding it a little funny that the CockroachDB people once built an image editor and named it after a character in Pulp Fiction as a joke, then abandoned the whole thing only a year or so later, and now everyone must live with the consequences almost thirty years on.

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I think thatā€™s as far as it goes for any regular person wanting to do image manipulation, maybe of a certain age. 0.2 seconds of the connotation and then move on.

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gwenview, which does screen caps, now has a nice set of easy editing tools if youā€™re just wanting to draw shapes, annotate, adjust color, crop, resize, flip, etc.

others (that i little or know nothing about)ā€¦

good - this politically correct/woke crap is absolutely toxic to a well functioning society and given the state weā€™re presently in, we donā€™t need more problems and divisions (but theyā€™re coming anyway)

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If we must talk about the nameā€¦ and since @itsMe already brought it to a headā€¦

My thinking is generally along these lines:

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we miss you George

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Iā€™m sure it will show up in Debian any year now!

The new release of GIMP is an exciting time for digital artists and the FOSS community, but Tomā€™s hardware branding it as ā€œfreewareā€ does a disservice to free software. I heard that site sold out years ago anyway and just does paid reviews now.

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Yep, Tomā€™s Hardware is owned by Future PLC. They in turn own over 100 other brands. It is a mixture of SEO manipulation and content farming.

You can see a list of brands here: 16CompaniesFilters/futureplc/futureplc.txt at main - bbbhltz/16CompaniesFilters - Forgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.

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hey @bbbhltz - i was pokinā€™ around your codeberg stuff and came across a little snippet for yt-dlp in your dotfiles repo

hereā€™s some junk i have in my .bashrc if youā€™re interestedā€¦

function yt-dlp-1080 { yt-dlp -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' --no-mtime --format 'bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio/best[height<=1080]/best' "${1}" ; }
function yt-dlp-720 { yt-dlp -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' --no-mtime --format 'bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best[height<=720]/best' "${1}" ; }
function yt-dlp-mp4 { yt-dlp -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' --no-mtime --format 'bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio/best[height<=1080]/best' --merge-output-format 'mp4' "${1}" ; }
function yt-dlp-playlist { yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print-to-file '<li>%(title)s (<a href="%(url)s">link</a>)</li>' 'Playlist.html' "${1}" ; }
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I do use similar functions now, but I havenā€™t updated my dotfiles in ages