From 9a85b74f5527199b6de4b8afd2c28a6fa523fe83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jehan Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 11:23:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] desktop: review our software description. This is based off ongoing Teams/GIMP/CoreTeam/Discussions#9 discussion and is meant to take care of worries which were raised in since-reverted commit c4b4f343d4. Basically GIMP is not a "toy software" indeed, made to just do quick one-click edits, such as a quick crop-rotation, or apply common filters with no options, by finger-swiping, for your social network account. It is not to say that you cannot do all of this, but this is still part of a much bigger feature-set, with a lot of advanced options to customize renders, in a software made for high-end image editing and creation. The target therefore includes graphics professionals (such as ourselves!), but not only, which is why the reverted commit was not fine. It can be amateurs doing high quality work too, and we don't want these creators and usage to be left out. The Core Team discussion is about our updated Project Vision. This is an ongoing discussion which may span for a few more months, possibly until the next physical meeting of contributors. So far, our Vision is summarized as one sentence: > GIMP is Community-driven Free Software for high-end image creation and manipulation. This sums up several of the main aspects of GIMP: its community and how it's being created by it, the fact it is Free Software, the fact it targets high-end creation/manipulation, and the generic aspect of the type of graphics works (creation or manipulation), because it is not just about photo retouching. This commit therefore reuses the current wording in the initial paragraph of our metadata description. I move one example of such type of graphics work in the second paragraph and remove the "simple" word, as it may imply again "toy" and ourselves, as well as many other digital painters across the world, have proved long ago that this program is not just to do "simple painting". This is an update before the RC release (where we will start freezing strings). Of course, we may update further the text later (when we'll start working on 3.4 probably), if the Project Vision further evolves. --- desktop/org.gimp.GIMP.appdata.xml.in.in | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/desktop/org.gimp.GIMP.appdata.xml.in.in b/desktop/org.gimp.GIMP.appdata.xml.in.in index cda5413403..ccb5e8153e 100644 --- a/desktop/org.gimp.GIMP.appdata.xml.in.in +++ b/desktop/org.gimp.GIMP.appdata.xml.in.in @@ -17,15 +17,14 @@ Create images and edit photographs

- GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a - freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, - image composition and image authoring. + GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is + Community-driven Free Software for high-end image creation and manipulation.

- It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint - program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online - batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an - image format converter, etc. + It has many capabilities. It can be used as a paint program, + an expert quality photo retouching program, image composition, + an online batch processing system, a mass production image + renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be