Glimpse: A Photo Editor For Everyone

Took some clicking to realize this was a GIMP fork -- the author strongly feels that GIMP as a name is offensive.

Glad to know I wasn&#x27;t the only one who felt uneasy with the original name: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glimpse-editor.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;#what-is-wrong-with-the-gimp-name" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glimpse-editor.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;#what-is-wrong-with-the-gim...</a>

The FAQ&#x27;s page is more useful than the homepage for now, it seems: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glimpse-editor.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;#why-are-you-forking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glimpse-editor.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;#why-are-you-forking</a>

The name GIMP is awful and it is a shame the maintainers are so stubborn about it.<p>Unfortunately this seems to be a mostly one person effort and is mostly about changing the name, so I&#x27;d be surprised it got far.<p>It&#x27;s a shame GIMP has improved so little in the last decade or so. Compare it to Blender, which is an incredibly polished product comparatively.

Gift: A Distributed Version Control System For Everyone

The Glimpse project is absurd. Energy wasted to fork an iconic program for obscure reasons. Politically correctness can be so ridiculous sometimes.

Is there progress being made beyond rebranding?

I haven’t been able to use GIMP a lot yet, but I unfortunately didn’t find it to be as intuitive as similar software, e.g. area selection.<p>Does Glimpse differ in this area or does it have plans to?

It&#x27;ll be good if they can improve on the abomination that is GIMP. Glimpse will be worth using even if all they do is implement a way to draw circles.

This is great. The response for decades to suggestions to change the name was &quot;fork it if you don&#x27;t like the name.&quot; Someone finally took them up on it and we get to see what happens with two competing open source image editors.

Nice! I can&#x27;t say no to this project if it indeed has a more visually satisfying UI.

&gt; If you are offended by the fact we renamed the project, we suggest you continue using the GNU Image Manipulation Program instead of annoying our contributors and making more work for our moderators.<p>Isn’t that ironic

I don&#x27;t mind the GIMP name and if Glimps is really just a rebranding I see no reason to use it. But if they&#x27;re actually going to fix its glaring UX problems I&#x27;ll be all over that.

do closed-source image editors like photoshop have a friendly plugin architecture?<p>is there an OSS ecosystem already locked onto adobe, or is there an opportunity for gimp &#x2F; glimpse to become a platform as well as a batteries-included product

How about CHUMPS - a fork of glimpse that benefits from the 20+ years of GIMP contributor effort <i>and</i> the professional UI of glimpse contributors effort (should such a thing materialize) but is being offered as a white-label to be branded for pay to whatever organization or movement that feels like it needs an open-source image editor that uncompromisingly represents its values ?