GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

  •  Vodulas [they/them]   ( @Vodulas@beehaw.org ) 
    15•27 days ago

    I think they are leaving out the part where they called it “The GIMP” in the 90s. They clearly chose the name to be edgy, and they are now trying to justify it after the fact. Complaining about the “sterilization” of language is just out of touch and leaves out the fact that if they stopped using the word, it might just completely fall out of use.

    •  superkret   ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 
      18•27 days ago

      The first public version of “The GIMP” was released in 1995.
      Pulp fiction, with a character called “The Gimp” was released in 1994.
      I’m pretty sure it’s not ableist, just a movie reference.

      •  Vodulas [they/them]   ( @Vodulas@beehaw.org ) 
        7•27 days ago

        That is probably where they got it, but the word definitely had multiple uses at the time. It may not have been explicitly ableist, but it is and was an ableist word. It also invalidates their claim that they are trying to reclaim usage. Again, they named it that because they thought it was funny, not some grand scheme.