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GIMP is a longstanding project, first announced in November 1995. The name was originally an acronym for General Image Manipulation Program but this was changed to GNU Image Manipulation Program.
The new fork springs from a discussion on Gitlab, where the source code is hosted. The discussion has been hidden but is available on web archives here. A topic titled "Consider renaming GIMP to a less offensive name," opened by developer Christopher Davis, stated:
I'd like to propose renaming GIMP, due to the baggage behind the name. The most modern and often used version of the word "gimp" is an ableist insult. This is also the colloquial usage of the word. In addition to the pain of the definition, there's also the marketability issue. Acronyms are difficult to remember, and they end up pronounced instead of read as their parts. "GIMP" does not give a hint towards the function of the app, and it's hard to market something that's either used as an insult or a sex reference.
[...] The subject of the suitability of the name is not new, and is enshrined in the official FAQ:
"I don't like the name GIMP. Will you change it?"
With all due respect, no. We've been using the name GIMP for more than 20 years and it's widely known ... on top of that, we feel that in the long run, sterilization of language will do more harm than good. ... Finally, if you still have strong feelings about the name "GIMP", you should feel free to promote the use of the long form GNU Image Manipulation Program or maintain your own releases of the software under a different name.
The Glimpse project is therefore entirely within the spirit of open source. "We believe free software should be accessible to everyone, and in this case a re-brand is both a desirable and very straightforward fix that could attract a whole new generation of users and contributors," says the About page.
Is now the time to accept that, to get GIMP into the mainstream, it needs a rename?
(Score: 2) by sjames on Saturday August 31 2019, @05:06PM
Color management is the un-holy grail. Color management is a process where the "professional" wants an office with expensive carefully calibrated lighting, with walls and floors carefully calibrated not to alter the spectrum of that light so they can have an expensive carefully calibrated monitor that shows exactly the same colors as the hard copy consisting of carefully calibrated ink on expensive carefully calibrated paper.
This will then be printed on less expensive not really calibrated paper and sent out to people who will look at it under not at all calibrated lighting that will be some random ad-mixture of crappy fluorescent, sunlight (possibly filtered through definitely not calibrated clouds) and reflected monitor light, possibly through tinted glasses such that even an objective measurement by a carefully calibrated instrument will find that it bears only passing resemblance to what it looked like in that expensive office.
Then because of the un-calibrated nature of human visual perception, it ends up being the next internet meme where people can't decide if it's blue and black or white and gold [wikipedia.org].