flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.uk to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agoFree software has some glib naming conventionsfeddit.ukimagemessage-square140linkfedilinkarrow-up11.14Karrow-down14file-text
arrow-up11.13Karrow-down1imageFree software has some glib naming conventionsfeddit.ukflamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.uk to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square140linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 months agoGIMP is an acronym for what’s arguably the most descriptive name possible: GNU Image Manipulation Program.
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months agoBut the acronym totally destroys the understandability of the program name and instead is understood as “an unpleasant or stupid person” (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimp). If you look at similar commercial software you get names like MS Paint, Photoshop or Lightroom. They should have stuck with “GNU Image”, “GNU Photo” or maybe “GNU PhotoEdit”.
minus-squareJesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoWhen I teach old people how to use GIMP, we all laugh at the name, I explain what it stands for, and then they don’t forget it.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThis is what confused me about OP, because I think of this as the application (ie program, or tool) not the library. So to put the name of the tool back into a library, seems backwards.
GIMP is an acronym for what’s arguably the most descriptive name possible: GNU Image Manipulation Program.
But the acronym totally destroys the understandability of the program name and instead is understood as “an unpleasant or stupid person” (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimp).
If you look at similar commercial software you get names like MS Paint, Photoshop or Lightroom.
They should have stuck with “GNU Image”, “GNU Photo” or maybe “GNU PhotoEdit”.
When I teach old people how to use GIMP, we all laugh at the name, I explain what it stands for, and then they don’t forget it.
This is what confused me about OP, because I think of this as the application (ie program, or tool) not the library. So to put the name of the tool back into a library, seems backwards.