The GIMP name controversy, explained
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GIMP was named after a character in Pulp Fiction. More than 20 years later, the name remains controversial and could be holding back the project.

I have no stake in this, but maybe just drop the ‘p’?

GIM avoids the slur but is still very close to the current name.

Digital Image Editor

GNU Raster Editing Program - GREP

Graphical Image Tool - GIT

Photo Editing with Raster Layers - PERL

Visual Image Manipulator - VIM

I love them all! Here a fork from one of your suggestions:

Nonlinear Visual Image Manipulator - NVIM

“Hey, can you recommend a good free photoshop alternative?”

“DIE!”

Plus they could announce the rebrand by replacing the weird dog chewing on a brush with the same weird dog lifting weights

Hitting the GIM.

Lifting brushes

Brushes with bellpeppers attached to them

I dig it!

If it wasn’t for StarOffice/OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress, is have thought a rename to Impress would be a good name.

Plus as an added bonus we can have the ‘gif’ pronunciation disagreement!

easy enough to resolve, since the G stands for GNU just pronounce it the same as that, and since GNU stands for GNU’S not UNIX, it pronounces G the same as GNU, which pronounces G the same as GNU, which pronounces G the same as GNU, which pronounces G the same as GNU, which pronounces G the same as GNU

The good old JNU licence.

Just like the good old Jraphics Interchange Format!

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