“We can take pride in what we achieved,” Moss adds. All it takes is a bit renewed interest and a dose of enthusiasm. The Glimpse project could make a comeback sometime in the future. Our main issue was that we could not find contributors willing to step up and help with non-code tasks As a result, we struggled to scale the project to match increasing demand.” “Our problem was not a lack of financial contributions or users, because the project was still growing in those areas. Our other remaining project contributors were occupied with trying to start the UI rewrite,” Moss writes, adding that the image editor’s burgeoning user base was, surprisingly, a major stick in the spokes: “By the second half of 2020, there was just me (Bobby Moss) and a couple of external contributors working on the fork itself. The fallout from the ongoing pandemic (and the economic uncertainty therein) has stretched Glimpse’s contributors thin. In a post on the Glimpse blog the project founder, Bobby Moss, explains the reasons why he feels unable to continue leading the project (tl dr: coronavirus). Glimpse is based on the GIMP image editor Sadly, none of that is going to happen for now. Work on a major UI rewrite (dubbed Glimpse NX) was getting underway as the editor’s work team sought to offer up a more tangible differentiation from its upstream source. Glimpse devs had big plans for the future. Not that a more marketable name was the sole motivation here, either. Plus, as major code contributions made to Glimpse would filter back to down GIMP (and vice versa) it was a win-win, surely? It meant people who are not fussed by the name GIMP can continue to use it, and those who were put off could switch to Glimpse and be happy. So regardless of where people sit individually on the issue of its name, the creation of Glimpse seemed like a reasonable resolution to the whole dilemma. The term carries different meanings in different parts of the world, including use as a pejorative insult (though is that a tautology?). Regardless of whether you or I find the name “GIMP” contentious the fact is that others do. And to do that? Well, they felt the app needed at the very least a less contentious name, icon, and branding.
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