The discussion has been hidden but is available on web archives here.

The new fork springs from a discussion on Gitlab, where the source code is hosted.

The name was originally an acronym for General Image Manipulation Program but this was changed to GNU Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is a longstanding project, first announced in November 1995. Again, easy-peasey.Interview Glimpse is a fork of the popular open source image editor, GIMP, created primarily to offer the software under an alternative name. Once installed you need to download BIMP, the Batch Image Manipulation Plugin, and install it (see Wikibooks GIMP/Installing Plugins for the details). Installing GIMP is fast and painless so I won’t belabor it here. GIMP, a free, open source image editor, that’s available for Windows, OS X, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, BSD, and Solaris and one of its neat features is an automation plugin called BIMP (though you can also automate GIMP with Python which, like GIMP’s batch mode, is not for beginners). Then I remembered GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Another constraint (other than my reluctance to wrangle Photoshop) was the need to be able to do this in the future as part of a process to be built into a virtual machine running Linux. I know you can automate Photoshop but that’s like getting into a Sherman tank to go shopping at your local supermarket. For a project I was recently working on I needed to remove the white background from several hundred images in PNG format and replace it with transparency.

Gimp image manipulation program