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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)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@programming.dev

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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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Glimpse is a much better name, though.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

It really is.