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Idea #1330: a mspaint like program for novices

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #2884: Ubuntu needs an easy to use graphic editor.
Written by megatux the 29 Feb 08 at 12:24. Category: Graphics. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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GIMP is overkill for simple users.
Ubuntu need a default mspaint like program for simple edit & children play...something like tuxpaint, maybe
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Written by megatux the 29 Feb 08 at 12:24.
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edcrypt wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 12:30
Inklite: http://bryceharrington.org/drupal/inklite
not MSPaint-like, but still a lightweight drawning program.

Jadd wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 12:57
When do "simple users" ever need to edit pictures? Answer: when they want to fine-tune their photos. An MS-PAINT-like program is not needed: F-spot already does that.

edcrypt wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 13:05
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When do "simple users" ever need to edit pictures? Answer: when they want to fine-tune their photos. An MS-PAINT-like program is not needed: F-spot already does that.
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This is not the case, a image editing program is also a great toy.

rorymccann wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 14:09
We need something like MSPaint for GNOME/Ubuntu. GnuPaint is crap and lacking basic features like undo.

There are many cases where someone needs something like MSPaint. If you have a map and want to draw a line to where your house is, fspot won't help.

picpak wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 14:12
"When do "simple users" ever need to edit pictures? Answer: when they want to fine-tune their photos. An MS-PAINT-like program is not needed: F-spot already does that."

I completely disagree with this. Practically everyone has used Paint at some point in their life. It's not the most fully-featured image editor out there, but it's perfect for when you wanna do a quick edit or drawing or something. The GIMP is so overwhelming at first that it takes a while to do just that. If they haven't had any Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro experience at first, they'll be completely lost. And that just won't do. Especially not as a default.

For KDE, there's Kolourpaint, which I find works perfectly. If every line you make on a computer is so perfect that you never need an "Undo" function, there's gpaint for GNOME as well.

rawsausage wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 20:23
The mono version of paint.net is wonderful for newbies. Far better UI than the GIMP and has basic functionality.

Chrissss wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 22:18
I just wrote a similar proposal:

Ubuntu ships with GIMP as preinstalled graphics program. GIMP is a really impressive tool, once you figured out how it works. But there are a lot of people out there, who only need a fraction of the things GIMP can do. There are a lot of simple image editing tasks which can be done with simple programs:

John needs some help to do certain things on Ubuntu. He takes a screenshot of a program and tries to mark his problem with a hand painted error and some text.

Mark has been on a conference trip. He want's to remember the people he met, so he pulls a group picture from his digicam and marks everyone with a name tag.

Under MS Windows MS Paint fills this gap. Don't lough, I know a lot of people who use this program quite often. It does exactly what those people want to do. Nothing more, nothing less. For linux there are some mspaint alternatives [1][2]. But they could need some makeover (in the case of gpaint) or a targeted at a different users (tuxpaint is a program for kids).

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/
[2] http://www.tuxpaint.org/

kandygirl1015 wrote on the 25 May 10 at 02:42
i've tried kolour paint for some odd reason it does antialiasing which i do not want and i have no friggin clue how to fix that that's why i like good old ms paint so are there any programs that don't automatically do antialiasing i wonder wonder

elerek wrote on the 25 May 10 at 07:18
I used kolour paint for some simple drafting of an idea, and I didn't notice any antialiasing. could it be the file format?


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