NEneonsunset·Apr 21, 2024Submission
Pinta – A Simple GTK 4 Paint Program (C#)
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Pinta
C#2014–2024
PintaProject / Pinta
Pinta
Simple GTK Paint Program
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Simple GTK Paint Program
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Observed mentions: 2014-03-27 17:33:11 UTC to 2024-04-21 05:01:54 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesPinta uses an older Paint.Net code - https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta
In Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows appIndeed.
One of the main reasons we abandoned Pinta (https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta) is we had to rewrite a significant portion of the app if we wanted to move to GTK3, as we had many custom UI needs.
See also:
GIMP, still on GTK2.
Inkscape released on GTK3 just within the past year or 2
In GTK 4.0 Released"Pinta is a Gtk# clone of Paint.Net 3.0", [0]
I knew it looked familiar. It's the toolbar icons.
Paint.NET is amazing and exactly what I need most of the time. Too bad that they turned away from open source after people/sites started selling own builds [1]. Going after these people legally might have been preferable from our view but I understand that changing the license might have been both cheaper and actually more feasible.
[0] https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.net#History
In Gimp is 25 years old todayLooks like a clone rather than a port (as paint.net isn't open source you can't really port it), but I'll take a look.
Their github (https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta) makes it look like the project may be abandoned.
In Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro