• @[email protected]
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    494 months ago

    I can understand the desire to change it given that the current name is arguably a slur in some contexts, but this is a terrible new name. There was a fork awhile back with this same motivation called “Glimpse” - I really think they should have chosen a name with some continuity from the original, and certainly not what looks to be an initialism (I never would have come to “Wilbur” on my own).

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      4 months ago

      I also would not have come to Wilbur on my own. Gimp is a weird name, but at least it’s pronouncable. Glimpse sounds great to me tbh. A nod to GIMP, but also a sensical name.

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          4 months ago

          This is the potentially most ‘linux canon accurate’ name possible, which amuses me greatly, but its also essentially the worst name possible for… normal human people that might use the software, lol.

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              4 months ago

              I am not clever enough to phrase this reply as an antagonistic acronym, but yes I did mean it as a compliment, hahaha!

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        Wlbr is a weird name but Wilbur would be fine.

        Edit. Gimp mascot is apparently named Wilber

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      14 months ago

      Glimpse makes a fuckton of sense, imo.

      Its sorta kinda close to the old name, it conveys the concept of imagery, and its also really easy to read and say.

      Like shit, I figured out just by playing team based shooters with voicecomms, that you want a username thats distinct, can be said in ideally one or two syllables.

      When you’re naming a product, yeah, having it be lingustically connected to the thing that it does, there yeah go, much better than ‘Squoombly’ or whatever.