• 12 Posts
  • 513 Comments
Joined 2 months ago
cake
Cake day: January 9th, 2026

help-circle

  • I used a few terminal apps in the past. My current one is “Konsole” from the KDE project. It is quiet feature rich, has support for tabs and color schemes. It even supports split views, where multiple “terminals” are in one window and stay together. What I also find useful is, it has a right mouseclick menu option to open current directory in my file manager.

    But it does not have a builtin functionality to “hide”. For KDE there is an extension (called Kwin Scripts) to turn any terminal app you want to into a quake or yakuake like drop down: Quakified Terminal But that is for KDE only off course. Edit: I just learned this Quakified Terminal addon is quite new and got its first release version 4 hours ago as of writing. Lol. That’s a coincidence.



  • I argue that GIMP is for image creation too. It does even better job at this, depending on what type of work you are doing. I don’t like to create pixel (as in retro gaming) graphics in Krita. I am not talented at all, but I can judge the workflow I think. That was just an example off course. We all know Krita excells at creating painted like arts with a pen and brushes simulation.





  • I tried Krita. It’s not not as good as GIMP is. What I will say is, it is pretty good for what it is and offers stuff that GIMP does not have. In fact I wanted to switch multiple times because of the support for Vector layers and non destructive workflows. But I never liked editing or creating images with it. Their text tool is also terrible (or was, I don’t know the current state). Just not a good GIMP replacement for me.


  • I’m sure the mainstream doesn’t care or even know what problems a subset of people have. I am not saying it is not a problem for those who have, but don’t pretend as if the name is an issue in widespread adoption. In fact, changing the name would only lead to a little adoption, but split the user base and make it even more confusing. Lot of people wouldn’t want to use the old name or the new fork, because everywhere and every article talks about how bad the name was. Therefore many people would just distance themselves from the project, without really understanding the issue or even caring.

    Let alone all the references in history, web and tutorials on YouTube which is only written for name “GIMP”. Changing the name of the main project would be a terrible idea. However I propose anyone who have a problem with it to simply fork it, and do a name and brand change. Without much other work, so it is not far behind to original project. This way people having a problem could just use that instead and everyone is happy.








  • Acknowledging the issues and having a plan is a first good sign of trust. Executing is the other, so we’ll see how this will going. I personally lost trust and interest into Manjaro and switched away. From personal experience, there were technical issues (caused by Manjaro), and social issues (didn’t like the administration and project leader). But I hope they “recover” and be better, and survive.