Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kalium_xyz 2280 days ago
Is there progress being made beyond rebranding?
3 comments
Pedrit0 2279 days ago
A "glimpse" of the tremendous changes made to Glimpse in the latest release:

Windows Improvements

    Translation files are now included in the MSI installer #240
    Glimpse Image Editor and GNU Image Manipulation Program no longer share the same task bar icon #247
    Windows installer now supports upgrading existing installations #314
UI Improvements

    “Color” icon pack and “Gray” UI theme have been reinstated #232
    The “fun” brushes have now been removed #286
    Upstream contributors and translators are now appropriately credited through the UI #228
    Renamed the “Gimpressionist” plug-in to “Impressionist” #267
    Fixed various problems in translation files #230 #238
    Fixed text color chooser that still used Wilber icon and upstream name #250
    Fixed “legacy” UI theme in Snapcraft #271
Code Improvements

    Moved build folder to build-aux to follow GNOME conventions #233
    Added packaging documentation to the snap and flatpak folders to match windows-msi #305
    Fixed make check so we can produce source tarballs for Linux distribution maintainers #251
A real joke....
link
Kye 2279 days ago
GIMP is still working on getting GEGL into everything after 20 years. Glimpse is allowed a little time to discuss and decide exactly what to do. That won't show in a commit log on a project that's less than a year old.

You can see the issue tracker for a better idea of project activity: https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse/issues

link
Pedrit0 2278 days ago
OK thx for the link as it is a factual proof of life for the project. But unfortunatly, this link to the mixed bugtrack/RFC shows the patent pbroblem with this project : after reading the RFC it shows that it is up to the community to provide the most basic goals for this fork, long after the project was initiated, which underscores the original sin of Glimpse. The only reason to fork was the name and the dev team had no other structured strategy to provide other enhancement at the beginning of the project. I do not think this the spirit of the Open Source philosophy and morover I feel sad about the whole story. The numerous people behind GIMP have been giving their time and skills for more than on decade to provide the only decent free alternative to Photoshop to millions of young artists, students and professionals who were not wealthy enough to pay for Adobe products. And then come a bunch of wankers who shame these great people for an obscure US-centered issue about the name of the app...
link
dotancohen 2280 days ago
They plan to use a different UI, which is in progress and as per the FAQ will not be ready for several years.
link
Polylactic_acid 2279 days ago
Is anyone actively working on it? That new UI has been the plan for a very long time now.
link
Polylactic_acid 2280 days ago
Nope.
link