Due to pending concerns over rights to the GIMPshop name, and a dispute with the individual who purchased the gimpshop.com domain, plans for an update were abandoned. As explained by Moschella in 2010:
I've try gimpshop from shadowhand's repo, as well as the PKGBUILD from Snowman.
Both of them gave us The Gimp interface.
I've got nothing "against" that interface by myself, but I'm simply trying to give my fellow graphist a usable tool to possibly replace his 6-years favorite application...
You can still find various gimpshop(dot)anything on web, but they are scam! The original Gimpshop project is dead and no more supported by developers, so we decided to launch this Reloaded version, totally malware free and open source.
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