<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">I've not used Pinta. But if it is anything like Pain.Net, it cannot be called a photo-organizer.</span><br clear="all">
--<br>Chandra Sekar.S<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Maia Kozheva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sikon@ubuntu.com">sikon@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Disclaimer: I'm not a core developer, I'm not on the desktop team, I'm<br>
not in any way involved with making decisions about default software, etc.<br>
<br>
The decision to remove GIMP in Lucid left a usability gap that F-Spot<br>
doesn't really fill; it has only a few basic photo manipulation<br>
functions. And now F-Spot is on the way of being replaced with Shotwell,<br>
which offers even fewer editing options. We could ship gpaint, but...<br>
yeah. It's a joke, even compared to MS Paint.<br>
<br>
Pinta ( <a href="http://pinta-project.com" target="_blank">http://pinta-project.com</a> ) is a simple, Paint.NET like<br>
cross-platform image editor based on Mono/GTK#, with no dependencies<br>
beyond that, whose aim is "to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP<br>
for casual users".<br>
<br>
The code, from what little work I have done on it, looks sane and well<br>
malleable, reusing standard GTK and Cairo functionality wherever<br>
appropriate. There is still work to do (I filed 9 bugs today alone,<br>
mostly about GNOME integration), but what is there is already impressive<br>
and, in my opinion, quite enough for casual users. It's not ready for<br>
inclusion into the default install right now, but later in the Maverick<br>
cycle, who knows? Especially if Ubuntu puts work into it.<br>
<br>
Just my two kopecks.<br>
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