Too bad Krita sucked for my express purpose of shitposting when I tried that.
I feel like GIMP is (as of writing) the only good, still maintained thing still on "gn*me.org"
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I mean, so long as it remains configurable and they don’t change the entire project. I don’t see an issue with giving folks the option to mask the name in environments where they might not want to attract anyone’s ire.
Its gonna get a lot of people angry and sweaty, but this is probably a good idea, long overdue. GIMP is just just not a professional sounding name.
I gather Wilbur is the name of the mascot, so WLBR makes sense.
The great thing about foss is you can call it whatever you want, fork it even if you feel so inclined.
Fix your title. The answer is "no". People are getting the wrong idea.
From GIMP team: We are NOT rebranding GIMP
Take a time to read the commit messages and the commit diff.
At first I didn't like the idea of a name change. But WLBR is perfect (because I'm a wilbur fan).