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Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades (www.tomshardware.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26156649

The slow and steady climb to 3.0 culminates in the most modernized version of GIMP yet.

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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There was a fork with a different name. It bombed.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well you don't fork a project just to rename it, that's not why it would have bombed.

[-] Lampshade@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago

The Glimpse Editor project shut down because there weren’t enough contributors, and the founder didn’t have enough time to do everything.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210531113823/https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/a-project-on-hiatus/

…and yeah it wasn’t just a rename, their github readme suggests they were making UX, accessibility, settings, and plugin changes to make it “enterprise ready” (not sure on the specific details of that though).

https://web.archive.org/web/20210729071541/https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Glimpse is a much better name, though.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

It really is.

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