Do you genuinely think this change would help the project? I don’t see how it does anything other than confuse potential users and cause a lot of discussion about something that doesn’t actually improve the functionality itself.
I do not think I have a point, you just made me remember some fun and dreadful moments.
google: define gimp
> / (ɡɪmp) / noun. US and Canadian offensive, slang a physically disabled person, esp one who is lame. slang a sexual fetishist who likes to be dominated and who dresses in a leather or rubber body suit with mask, zips, and chains.
(probably from urban dictionary)
see also a real dictionary
I'm pretty sure that the biggest threat to the adoption of GIMP isn't the name GIMP, it's Adobe doing regular Adobe things.
I’m not sure a name change would do that much. The tool itself is behind photoshop from 2010 and the gap is growing.