Pinta by default, someday?

Shane Fagan shanepatrickfagan at ubuntu.com
Mon May 31 11:50:39 BST 2010


On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 17:33 +0700, Maia Kozheva wrote:
> 31.05.2010 17:18, Shane Fagan wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> It is, in fact, in the repos (in Maverick). And since Pinta only uses 
> gtk-sharp, it wouldn't require any new Mono bindings beyond what Tomboy 
> already uses.

Your right there are no extra dependencies on the install. 

> As for the feasibility of a paint program... Well, no means no, I guess.

Well im not in a position to say no, I was just expressing my opinion.
It is a nice program though and it does have some nice effects included.
I just dont think a paint program is needed in the default but it is
really small so we could very easily just through it in. 

--fagan




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