Gimp vs GNU Image Manipulation Program

[Valent Turkovic]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:23 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  > 2008/3/26 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
>  > > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 20:09 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  > >  > I'm a linux only user and I find "GNU Image Manipulation..." a
>  > >  > non-sane name, as long as I know about Gimp and in all presentations
>  > >  > and tutorials the term that is used is Gimp. Look at book covers,
>  > >  > "Gimp book" not "Gnu image..." is on their covers, try google also...
>  > >  > let's be practical please.
>  > >
>  > >  I suggest you have this conversation upstream with GIMP since they're
>  > >  the ones that changed the menu name.
>  > >
>  >
>  > My gut feeling tells me that they will tell that fedora can change the
>  > name to gimp if that fits better,
>
>  As I already said, this is not practicable as we need to care for all
>  languages. AFAIK, we don't have infrastructure for forked translatable
>  strings.
>
>
>  > most upstream gnome people to who I
>  > talked to told me that on such minor things gnome lets downstream
>  > customize as they need for them.
>  >
>  > I'll talk to upstream and report back and tell you if my gut feeling
>  > was spot on or wrong.
>
>  Do you plan to do that via mail (gimp-developer at lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU)
>  or via IRC (#gimp @ GIMPNet)? If the latter, it would be nice if you
>  could ping me (my nick is "nils") as I may have something to add about
>  the technical aspects (.desktop files etc.).
>
>
>  Nils

I thought through mailing list but it looks like they have some
problems becase mailing list subscription page seams to be down so I'm
now going to IRC - I'll ping you.

Cheers,
Valent.

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