Pinta by default, someday?

[Shane Fagan]

Hey Maia,
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 16:36 +0700, Maia Kozheva wrote:
> Disclaimer: I'm not a core developer, I'm not on the desktop team, I'm 
> not in any way involved with making decisions about default software, etc.
> 
> The decision to remove GIMP in Lucid left a usability gap that F-Spot 
> doesn't really fill; it has only a few basic photo manipulation 
> functions. And now F-Spot is on the way of being replaced with Shotwell, 
> which offers even fewer editing options. We could ship gpaint, but... 
> yeah. It's a joke, even compared to MS Paint.

We talked about this at length for the past 2 UDS default apps sessions.
Most users really only want to touch up photos(crop), change the
hue/saturation/brightness and crop stuff. This is really simple
functionality. 

> 
> Pinta ( http://pinta-project.com ) is a simple, Paint.NET like 
> cross-platform image editor based on Mono/GTK#, with no dependencies 
> beyond that, whose aim is "to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP 
> for casual users".
> 

Ive heard of Pinta but I dont think its in the repo at the moment. We
may have to ship more mono bindings if Pinta was in the install because
at the moment we ship the bare minimum (we only have gbrainy and
tomboy). 

> The code, from what little work I have done on it, looks sane and well 
> malleable, reusing standard GTK and Cairo functionality wherever 
> appropriate. There is still work to do (I filed 9 bugs today alone, 
> mostly about GNOME integration), but what is there is already impressive 
> and, in my opinion, quite enough for casual users. It's not ready for 
> inclusion into the default install right now, but later in the Maverick 
> cycle, who knows? Especially if Ubuntu puts work into it.
> 
> Just my two kopecks.
> 

I dont agree with going to any paint program at all. The main point is
that does the user at home want a full on paint program? No is the
answer, its very very simple if the user wants to paint they install
Gimp or Pinta or whatever other program they like. The regular user goes
out on a trip takes some photos wants a very simple quick and easy touch
up of those photos. 

--fagan