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The weirdest part is the name. Is there any way I can use the software without typing that BDSM term?
Click on the icon? No typing required.
For what it's worth, I've been at enterprise sized places that had GIMP on their standard software catalogue, no one cares about the name.
I mean renaming the program from the files
GIMP is open source, so you probably can. The GIMP repo has info on setting up a dev environment.
I'd think you'd need at least some technical skill. There was a fork called Glimpse purely for the name change, but I can't find any trace of it now.
You could try typing the term used to refer (usually derogatorily) to a person with an injury or deformity in their lower extremities, or the term used as a synonym for hobble.
What?
Gimp. A word used to refer to someone with a lower extremity injury or deformity, or a synonym for the word "hobble"
I prefer it if the software is called like "GNULook"
Yeah, it makes it sound silly and non-serious to people I've introduced it to who know nothing about open source and Linux etc
What a weird thing to worry about in a world where some of the most recognizable products have silly, unserious names like Google and Twitter, and where the slogan for one of the most popular media players of all time is "it really whips the llama's ass"
Google and Twitter are not on par with "gimp". I also didn't say I was worried. I just noted that it makes people take the software less seriously when I advocate it as a free, open source replacement for Photoshop, which has a very respectable reputation and a business-like name. Being called "gimp" makes people doubt that it's a professional quality product.
In Mint right now if I hit the menu and type "photo" I get five options and GIMP is one of them. But it doesn't say GIMP on my screen, it says "GNU Image ..." next to the icon.
If I type "image" then GIMP is second in the list after photo viewer.
Normally though I just hit super - g - i - m - p - ENTER. Because I wanna run GIMP damn it!