I’ll start: while looking at app theming I came across WallRizz, renamed from WallWiz. I haven’t tried it, and looking at it documentation it seems well made, but I cringe at the name and the AI-generated penguin logo. It shares the art style of all the other AI slop, its basically italian brainrot but 2D. WallWiz sounds way better, rizz sounds like it was specially designed for gen alpha (little kids). If there are apps of even similar quality, why would I use this one?

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
    131·
    5 days ago

    The GIMP has suffered from this for a long time. Lots of calls to change the name just go ignored. It’s genuinely hard to recommend it to people as a Photoshop alternative just because of that alone.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      5 days ago

      Funny, I don’t even use The GIMP, and I think of it as “The GNU Image Manipulation Program” before I think of the BDSM meaning (or the handicap slur).

      I’m weird. And probably the exception.

      • Ephera@lemmy.ml
        4·
        5 days ago

        To be honest, I think you’re in the majority. Non-native speakers will know it almost exclusively as the image manipulation program.

        • bran_buckler@lemmy.world
          4·
          5 days ago

          As in a “gimp leg”. Another old term in the same vein would be “lame”. But then those terms could be used to describe a person as a whole, becoming the slur.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    5 days ago

    I try not to judge the quality of software by the quality of it’s branding because I would prefer that others extend me the same courtesy.

    I’m a good software engineer. I’m good at it in part because I have a knack for problem solving and I enjoy creating useful tools that work well.

    I’m also a terrible artist. I can’t even draw a good looking stick figure. I’m amazed by people who are good artists. Some of them have an incredible amount of talent. I know that artistry, just like engineering, requires skill that is mostly built through learning and practice. But there’s something inside our brains that makes some of us naturally good at these things.

    I express my creativity through problem solving. Others express theirs through visual art or in many other ways. That’s just one of the wonders of human diversity.

    So, if you find a software app that seems well made and well documented, don’t judge the creator too harshly if they don’t have an eye for visual style. It may just not be their forte and for all you know they’re judging their own work far more harshly than you.