It's kind of mind-boggling how bad the free software community is at naming things
Show this thread
-
They're finally trying to rename GIMP to something less stupid and somehow the suggested replacements are only barely less bad: * GNU Imp (GNU Image Manipulation Program, restyled) * GNU PIE (GNU Photo and Image Editor) * Glimpse * Clickfix * Wilber
Show this thread
"GNU Imp" is an insane suggestion because imagine doing all of that rebranding work and it still abbreviates to "GImp". "GNU PIE" is also insane because (1) what does pie have to do with anything and (2) it, concerningly, implies the existence of photos which are NOT images
-
-
"Glimpse" is a legit good suggestion and by far the best pick on this list. "Clickfix" is just mystifying. Those are your primary associations with image manipulation? Clicking on things and fixing things? It sounds like a budget screwdriver manufacturer
Show this thread -
-
New conversation -
-
-
(2) sounds like a concern in a
@cstross book, and even if it would be a real problem, GNU is not who I'd trust to contain itThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
A pet hate of mine is that Facebook refers to every image as a photo.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Every single string of 1's and 0's can be interpreted as an image just by opening it in an image editor as is, and every single one of them can be subject to a coherent graphic manipulation that will produce a coherent end result in its intended use case.
-
Thus one can argue, that by taking a photo of, say, a spectrogram, graphically manipulating it and then putting an end result as is through a sound output, what you effectively did wasn't an image manipulation, but a sound manipulation. Yet it was still a photo.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.