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Well, as long as the GNU-slash-IMP folks are mad at me, I should go for broke and irritate everyone. Someone's got to be debbie downer and I guess today it's me.

Does @gnome support the use of a slur for a project they're hosting? Because from where I sit, they appear to, and I feel like hosting this project might be a violation of their CoC.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp

in reply to Veronica Explains

Completely fair of you to raise this imo! The Graphical Irrationally Malicious Program is such a stain on OSS for as long as they continue to dig their heels in on this. There's literally no need for it and for all the polite asking, it's time to make an actual stand surely
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in reply to Veronica Explains

I welcome anyone from team @gnome to chat about it. I'd love to see GNOME suggest a new name for the project they're hosting.
in reply to Veronica Explains

Personally I really don't care about a software's name. But if it's name refers to or actually IS a slur it should be changed. And it shouldn't be a big issue either.
in reply to Veronica Explains

I got banned from pre-Elon Twitter because I used the product name.
Because the product name is considered "hate speech"
in reply to Mr. Bitterness

@wdormann im kinda surprised twitter banned it given its a slur; like it’s not like you said cisgender
in reply to Veronica Explains

@wdormann twitter these days usually doesn’t ban slurs, there used constantly on the platform even by the site owner, so. this is surprising;
in reply to Li ~ Crystal System

@Li @wdormann I guess I'm missing why Twitter is involved, there might be context I'm not seeing due to federation issues? I also have a lengthy blocklist because Twitter's owner doesn't like folks like me. Could totally be something I'm missing about Twitter and I'm probably better off.
in reply to Veronica Explains

@wdormann above this is a reply where someone is saying they found out it was a slur because it got them banned by twitter, for using the name of the program, and I was commenting about how that is kind of surprising, becuase they usually don’t do that,

Can you not see that?

Also just occurred to me, I find it funny them acknowledging it’s a slur is what’s unbelievable and not them somehow missing the context that your talking about an image editor. that’s very expected; normal major social media site behaviour right there,

in reply to Li ~ Crystal System

@Li nope, totally missed the reply. I wish ActivityPub knew not to serve me replies to muted posts, because I'm totally not in on the context. Carry on, I suppose, forget I said anything!
in reply to Veronica Explains

for a non-native English-speaker like myself; is the word "gimp" actually used anywhere outside the movie Pulp Fiction?

And while I'm already making a fool of myself I might as well ask: is "git" an offensive name for a software?

I don't want to demean or derail the subject. It's just that even though I'm fluent in English I'm still perplexed about what is or isn't considered insensitive or offensive sometimes. I'm missing some cultural context.

in reply to Tinyrabbit ✅

@tinyrabbit to answer your question about the word, yes it's used outside the movie. I hear it frequently enough used as a slur against folks who have physical mobility challenges. Sometimes it's used in a self-deprecating manner, other times as a slur from the outside ("punching down"). Also has an additional meaning in the context of certain sexual subcultures.

Hope that helps.

in reply to Veronica Explains

i was not aware (as a non-native English speaker) that word was a slur. Just checked it, and indeed is marked as derogatory with no redeemable usage for a public product (it would be bad even for a private one, of course)… why people do these things?
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in reply to Veronica Explains

I didn't know it was a slur. Just read about it, that's awful.
I thought the objections were related to the BDSM usage of the word (which is also bad for a software intended for unrelated purposes and non sexual work environments)
in reply to Veronica Explains

How about we let GIMP keep their name, and we denounce people who use the word in a derogatory manner instead?
in reply to Jordan (has moved)

@lns Do you honestly think that's an effective strategy?

NB: this is a rhetorical question. donotreply.cards/en/do-not-rep…

in reply to Space Hobo

@spacehobo It's not a strategy.

Gimp is the name of a program. It's not meant to harm. Go after the people who use the word to harm, not the developers of a graphics program.

Also, it's very rude to tell strangers what to do (do not reply).

in reply to Jordan (has moved)

@lns

Please stop tagging me. Am I rude because I said please?

I disagree with you here, if you aren't interested in actual conversation I suggest you move on out of my mentions.

@spacehobo @gnome

in reply to Veronica Explains

Sorry, the mentions are default when replying. I removed you from earlier reply.

Just to be clear, I 100℅ agree with your sentiment, I simply think we're going after the wrong people.

in reply to Jordan (has moved)

@lns I appreciate the reply. To be clear, I do go after anyone who uses slurs in my personal life, and I still think we should change the name of a FOSS project if we want it to see wider adoption.

I mentioned on another thread that I once tried to get it cleared at a corporate gig and it was denied due to concerns over the slur from the legal department, they chose Photoshop for me instead.

This experience, as well as the fact that it's a slur, plays in to my opinion here.

in reply to Veronica Explains

Oh wow, that sucks. I see where you're coming from.

Ugh. Sucks that innocent people have to deal with words being taken the wrong way.

in reply to Veronica Explains

it's also an issue in educational settings, due to the NSFW associations with the term. It just seems so misguided to cede that ground, surely it's an ideal opportunity to build familiarity with open source software.
in reply to Dr Zoyander Street

@zoy yeah, that's *exactly* my vibe about it.

With a rebrand that is unquestionably youth friendly, I could imagine kids growing up with this software and discovering FOSS alternatives and a friendly ecosystem. They want that.

Instead, we have intransigence from this project. It's sad, really. Such wasted potential.

in reply to Veronica Explains

fwiw GNU Imp isn't a GNOME project per se. It uses our infra, but it's not part of GNOME and doesn't follow GNOME's release processes or project governance. It's in the GNOME/ namespace on GitLab for historical reasons.

It was previously on the old GNOME CGit alongside many other third party apps, and for a time all apps that were there were put into the GNOME/ namespace. For a few years some newer third party apps got moved into that namespace, but nowadays we keep it to things that are official. Old projects remain due to the hassle of transferring namespaces.

I'm not fond of the name at all personally - I was the one who opened the rebranding issue years ago that lead to the Glimpse fork.

in reply to Chris 🌱

@brainblasted this is useful context, thank you. I hold out hope that maybe @gnome can carry some influence here, considering how it feels (to me anyway) like it conflicts with the CoC.
in reply to Veronica Explains

honey. they've been going for decades. they aren't stopping. best to find a better hill to die on. the most recent name-change fork is long gone already: github.com/glimpse-editor/Glim…
in reply to Veronica Explains

you deserve better than arses patronising you. Thank you for the job you're doing with this thread
in reply to Veronica Explains

its a great opportunity to turn this rebrand as a positive thing.

Just make this is a "a thing" maybe catch some attetion in other medias outside a FOSS world and bring more users for then....

Also they don't make this is for yesterday, just deprecate old slur ones and change for sometging like gimage or gimt or evem glimpse with is a bunch of guys tryng to do a fews years ago...

in reply to Veronica Explains

why don't they just renamed it "Wilber" after the mascot tbh? It's easy to remember, it doesn't spit in the face of disabled people, they can keep all other branding the same, and it's a fairly unique name, which is a big advantage in a time where the biggest companies in the world are called "Meta" and "Alphabet".

(So long as they ditch the "Wilber is his own species, a gimp" shtick with it. That's a raccoon if ever I saw one.)

in reply to Veronica Explains

Hm. Gnome uses GitLab. So they're probably fine with it, as they also support apps, where the team behind it actively supports DOGE and therefore the Trump administration.

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