GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.
The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.
I don’t want to answer a specific user about the name connotations but, isn’t the load of a word dependant of the intention? My friends and I call each other whores. And conversely one can use “woman” as a very badly loaded vocative.
Yes and no.
Reclaiming a word can only be done by those who are affected by it negatively and it should always be used in a positive way by people attempting reclaiming, never negatively. I’ve seen no evidence of them doing this or of them ever being affected by that word negatively personally.
Also intent is not magical, it doesn’t absolve people of the hurt they cause by doing something, all it might do is explain they weren’t trying to be cruel, however that doesn’t magically absolve anyone of anything and if they carry on doing it regardless of hurting someone etc, then they show their intent was really not what they claim it was.