Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint

ubiquitin writes "To avoid confusion with the GIMP, the Film Gimp project has renamed itself to CinePaint. The project is essentially a legitimate fork of GIMP, and is focused on image manipulations for moving pictures." We've mentioned Film Gimp several times lately; it'll be even handier as programs like Cinelerra and Kino grow more polished.

Comments

Gimp was always a stupid name.

[Anonymous Coward]

Gimp is a name subject to ridicule, at least now I can use something that dosen't sound lame.

Legitimate fork?

[Da VinMan]

What the heck is a "legitimate fork"? Does this mean that there are "rogue forks"? And, yes, I know what a "fork" is (IT and otherwise), but I've never heard of a legitimate fork.

What strikes me here is that if we're now going to call forks legitimate and rogue (or whatever), that implies that there's some authority in charge of authorizing or blessing these forks. Part of the beauty of OS is that a given project always stands the risk of losing mindshare with its user base to forks which may do a better job of fulfilling the needs of the community. Calling them "legitimate" or rogue or whatever you will, seems to be irrelevant.

Re:The other choices...

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Re:https?

[caluml]

OK, so it's not self made.
But can you specify *.slashdot.org? Surely you just put slashdot.org if you want to indicate all the hosts, and subdomains.

Re:This is uber cool!

[EvilTwinSkippy]

This is really cool. I used to think it was just another Open Source project where someone creates a SourceForge website and then abandons it two months later after no code is written.

Hey, I resemble that remark. I'm just waiting for a time machine to take me back to 1999 so I can find a Mac to recompile that extension on. Really...

No actually I have a new version of a few of my toolkits in use at the office, but they are not in a presentable shape for public consumption. Hell, my last version was pirated by some guy's Doctoral Thesis, and if I had one more request to recompile the software for later versions of Tcl on the Mac I was going to scream. I don't even own a Mac anymore! The source code is right there, with the Metrowerks Build files.

Hey, how about you just open a copy of Tcl 8.0, and use a sockets interface to talk to your new program?

I did have a few kind souls who did submit some patches. But for every contributer there was a high maintenance user who didn't want to believe that his platform was stuck in time.