Pinta by default, someday?

[Chandru]

I've not used Pinta.  But if it is anything like Pain.Net, it cannot be
called a photo-organizer.
--
Chandra Sekar.S


On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Maia Kozheva <sikon at ubuntu.com> 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.
>
> 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".
>
> 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.
>
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