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.
Seems more like a backronym to me, they could’ve picked something better.
Well you don’t fork a project just to rename it, that’s not why it would have bombed.
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
