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GIMP Shmimp, Give Me a Browser

Posted by Ridcully on · 9 comments
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Don't get me wrong, I love The GIMP. We all love The GIMP, as our Readers' Choice awards show this month. If I'm being completely honest, however, I rarely have the need for such a powerful application. Usually, regardless of what computer system I'm on, I pick Pixlr as my image editing program.

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Comments (9)

tuxchick ·
And Pixlr is neither open source nor free software, and doesn't have anything to do with Linux. Except that it works in Web browsers on Linux.
Steven_Rosenber ·
(The) GIMP needs a name change worse than anything except maybe Gigolo. Luckily I really don't need Gigolo anymore since Thunar has improved so much in recent releases.

But (The) GIMP? As always, its insistence on obliterating IPTC data in JPGs remains problematic.
DrGeoffrey ·
Yeahbut, Gigolo is just so descriptively accurate.
notbob ·
> its insistence on obliterating IPTC data in JPGs remains problematic.

Yabut ....http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwNjY

C'mon gang, cut GIMP some slack. It'll get there. Sure, it's not PS, but it's a whole lot cheaper.
Steven_Rosenber ·
> Yabut ....http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwNjY

Free software-wise, you have made my quarter-year! (Can't take glory away from Xfce and Liferea). I am excited, for sure.
AwesomeTux ·
It is "the GIMP" in most cases, neither way is official though (they don't say one way or the other I believe.) In proper English, however -- depending on how you structure your sentence -- "the GIMP" is most accurate simply because the program's actual name is *the* GNU Image Manipulation Program, and so wherever the full name would be used prefaced with "the" so should the acronym.

For example:
Quoting:This is the official GIMP web site.


Would be:
Quoting:This is the official GNU Image Manipulation Program web site.


And:
Quoting:Extensions are separate processes that communicate with the GIMP in the same way that plug-ins do.


Would be:
Quoting:Extensions are separate processes that communicate with the GNU Image Manipulation Program in the same way that plug-ins do.
Steven_Rosenber ·
It isn't GIMP without the 'The.'

Though they are free to change the name entirely.
caitlyn ·
You know what? I don't care what the name is or if they change it slightly. It's an awesome program that probably does 90%+ of what Photoshop does and does it very well indeed at zero cost with open source code.
skelband ·
@caitlyn: Agreed

The most recent versions are pretty awesome. I use it all the time. Does everything I want.

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