It's not open source unless the package name is a scabby dumpster fire.

As in the pig from Charlotte's Web?

I think you just pronounce it Wilbur

SFDC, IBM, ADP, KKR MYOB are all similarly unpronouncable as singular words.

The sound of a dog drinking from a sprinkler?

It's easier to search online for WLBR than for Imp. It might occasionally force people to search for the full name "GNU Imp", which might be a plus.

Other than that, I love your proposal.

Also tbh, if it does the same things as before, they could call it POOP, and I'd still use it. The name has no bearing on how it functions.

Who is really out here getting bent out of shape over a name?

For now. It seems like obvious water-testing.

And even if it isn't, giving "users" (read: corporate middle managers never actually using the app) the "option" of the "name" "not being" "naughty".

These all "these" are "concepts" GIMP can do without.

The name is what it is. You didn't make the app, you don't set the name. Simple as.

And to the makers/maintainers:

Is throwing old and loyal users under the bus worth it?

The conspiracy theorist in me can see this being the start of the end of GIMP. It wouldn't be the first or the last FOSS project to "fall from grace".

I'm not saying it will - I don't want to do a detailed study of GIMP lore and current politics, but the simple act of potentially enabling a rename in the future is a GIANT FUCKING RED FLAG in my book.

Even with good intentions, it "enables" a "later" "usurpation".

It's like deliberately cutting yourself in the middle of pirrhana-infested pool.

The wound's not deep. It isn't dangerous. Nor do the pirrhanas notice right away.

But when they do... You'll be lucky to just lose the leg you cut.

Lmao, imagine being so fragile that a name offends you.

The Linux community can't let an opportunity for an acronym to go to waste. Even more so for a backronym.

Perhaps 'WiLBeR' would be a compromise?

Its ... basically following what I'm going to call 'GLaDOS case' rules.

???

Just sort of seems closer to the kind of silly spellings of robot names in a fair deal of movies and such?

GNU Wilber

It's not the new name but an alternative. I guess it will have to fit where GIMP does, so it's better to have the same amount of letters.

EDHTBAA, got it

I dunno, I was fine with GNU Image Manipulation Program.

WNBR stands for World Naked Bike Ride, so it must be something similar!

I have been trying to figure that out too and I can’t find anything anywhere. I think I will just keep calling it GIMP.

You never heard of a talking horse?

I also would not have come to Wilbur on my own. Gimp is a weird name, but at least it's pronouncable. Glimpse sounds great to me tbh. A nod to GIMP, but also a sensical name.

Glimpse makes a fuckton of sense, imo.

Its sorta kinda close to the old name, it conveys the concept of imagery, and its also really easy to read and say.

Like shit, I figured out just by playing team based shooters with voicecomms, that you want a username thats distinct, can be said in ideally one or two syllables.

When you're naming a product, yeah, having it be lingustically connected to the thing that it does, there yeah go, much better than 'Squoombly' or whatever.

There will be a C&D from them. You really shouldn’t use a radio station’s calling as your product name. This will not end well.