Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 15, 2023 20:10 UTC (Mon) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update by nim-nim
Parent article: Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

> And now it has exhausted its potential to the point that just maintaining a simple stupid official image viewer is deemed to be hard.

But if this all started life as a GIMP-based project, can't they just fork GIMP, rip out all of the editing functionality and, uh, call it a day? That doesn't sound hard to me. Is there some property of the GIMP codebase that makes it harder than it sounds?