lacking, splash integration, documentation, when the environment variable WLBR_IS_GIMP is set, in ui visible strings GIMP/gimp is replaced with WLBR/wlbr.
If FOSS is going to make headway in business and among the non-technical, names should be descriptive and not based on some edgy humor a dev thinks is high comedy.
“Git” is only really a word in British English which implicitly gives it lower worldwide cultural penetration than a general English term. For most non-British programmers (and honestly I would imagine many British ones given how ubiquitous Git VC is now), “Git” refers to the software first and the pejorative second, if they’ve even heard of the latter before.
It’s really not ok.
If FOSS is going to make headway in business and among the non-technical, names should be descriptive and not based on some edgy humor a dev thinks is high comedy.
Like “plasma”?
Yeah names is important, but come on, Blender?
Gimp is only a problemi for an handfull of english speaker americans. 90% of people in the world dont care.
It stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program… how is that not descriptive?
If the name were the problem then why doesn’t someone fork the project and change only the name? <- actual question, not trying to be a smartass
In either case they are starting from ~zero name recognition.
You’re not trying to have an actual discussion.
@Krudler @Shimitar so GIT and GitHub is next
“Git” is only really a word in British English which implicitly gives it lower worldwide cultural penetration than a general English term. For most non-British programmers (and honestly I would imagine many British ones given how ubiquitous Git VC is now), “Git” refers to the software first and the pejorative second, if they’ve even heard of the latter before.