[Gimp-docs] GIMP vs. The GIMP

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:52 +0200, Axel Wernicke wrote:

> in the most recent Changelog for the user manual I found this entry:
> 
> 2007-10-02  Sven Neumann  <sven at gimp.org>
> 
> 	* src/introduction.xml: changed 'The GIMP' to 'GIMP' in some places.
> 
> 
> Is "The GIMP" somehow evil? Do we prefer "GIMP" over "The GIMP" now?  
> If so, I missed that discussion / decision completely and may be I'm  
> not the only one in the documentation team.

GIMP is an acronym and the article was never supposed to be part of the
name. We prefer "GIMP" over "The GIMP" for quite a while already. For
GIMP 2.4 we have completely dropped the article whereever possible. I
would very much appreciate if the user manual would adopt this change
and also used 'GIMP' instead of 'The GIMP'. Please do also make sure
that the name is used in all capital letters. It's 'GIMP', not 'Gimp' or
'gimp'.


Sven