@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 months agoGIMP rebranding as WLBR?gitlab.gnome.orgexternal-linkmessage-square266fedilinkarrow-up1270
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minus-squareslartibartfast141linkfedilinkEnglish46•2 months agoThe Linux community can’t let an opportunity for an acronym to go to waste. Even more so for a backronym.
minus-squareeleijeeplinkfedilinkEnglish15•2 months agoCould have had the recursive acronym KINGIMP (KINGIMP Is Not GIMP) smdh
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•2 months agoThat’s for the fork with a UI implemented in Qt.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoIt’s another case of OSPNS - Open source projects names sucking .
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-22 months agoPerhaps ‘WiLBeR’ would be a compromise? Its … basically following what I’m going to call ‘GLaDOS case’ rules. ??? Just sort of seems closer to the kind of silly spellings of robot names in a fair deal of movies and such?
minus-squareazuthlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoIt’s not the new name but an alternative. I guess it will have to fit where GIMP does, so it’s better to have the same amount of letters.
Why not just Wilber? Just like the mascot.
The Linux community can’t let an opportunity for an acronym to go to waste. Even more so for a backronym.
Could have had the recursive acronym KINGIMP (KINGIMP Is Not GIMP) smdh
That’s for the fork with a UI implemented in Qt.
It’s another case of OSPNS - Open source projects names sucking .
Perhaps ‘WiLBeR’ would be a compromise?
Its … basically following what I’m going to call ‘GLaDOS case’ rules.
???
Just sort of seems closer to the kind of silly spellings of robot names in a fair deal of movies and such?
GNU Wilber
It’s not the new name but an alternative. I guess it will have to fit where GIMP does, so it’s better to have the same amount of letters.