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> and have yet to find a suitable replacement There are a few, Kolourpaint is pretty much an MSPaint clone for KDE [1] and Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent [
by badsectoracula 9y ago
> and have yet to find a suitable replacement
There are a few, Kolourpaint is pretty much an MSPaint clone for KDE [1] and Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent [2]. There is also Gnome Paint [3], but hasn't seen any update in years. I suppose the closest would be Pinta [4], although that is slightly above MS Paint on the complexity level (probably more comparable to Paint.NET than MS Paint).
> I'm not sure how I feel about it being web-based
Personally i find it amusing and impressive that this implements a Win95-like GUI (i love Win95's GUI :-P) but at the same time the actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P.
It is also nice that it has implemented the select+shift+drag brush feature that is ignored by almost every other clone i've seen over the years.
[1] https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/ https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/
[2] https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/screenshots/ https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/screenshots/
[3] https://launchpad.net/gnome-paint https://launchpad.net/gnome-paint
[4] https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/ https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/
- dingo_bat 9y ago> actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P. Works as fast as native paint on my laptop. What browser are you using?
- pluma 9y agoSame here: no noticeable lag in Firefox on Ubuntu. I'm guessing Safari on macOS?
- rangibaby 9y agono problem with Safari+Macos here
- badsectoracula 9y agoFirefox on Linux
- Cyberspy 9y agoWorks really on Chrome on Windows 10, on a 3 year old laptop!
- janci 9y agoKolourPaint is very close. GIMP is great, but simple operations (ie. screenshot-crop-higlight-annotate) get complicated (layers, floating layers, text layers, alpha)
- fithisux 9y agoLazpaint seems another handy option. I used it for years.
- Andrenid 9y ago> the actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P. It's completely and utterly indistinguishable from a native app on my PC (Firefox 57.0.4 (64-bit) on Windows 10). First thing I noticed was how smooth and flawless it was, even when I expand the canvas and go crazy with every single tool to make a big mess, it didn't slow down once.
- pjmlp 9y agoOther than using 10x more resources than the original version.
- tenken 9y agocomputers have 1000x more capacity and throughput than the original 486's. So a 10x bump in resource you say?! -- Hmmm not too shabby for such a faithful clone!
- tim333 9y agoOn my Macbook Air, with Chrome and High Sierra it managed to crash Chrome impressively and force quit and hitting restart failed to do much. I actually had to hit the power button which is kind of unusual on a Macbook.
- esolyt 9y ago> Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent Not really. It has many issues. The left toolbar is not dockable. I find it annoying that I have to do window management withing a single application. That and the fact that it asks for the canvas size everytime I launch it.
- badsectoracula 9y agoAren't Mac applications supposed to have their toolbars as separate windows? Pixelmator (at least the pre-App Store version i have) does the same, as did some other apps i've tried at the past.
- vonseel 9y agoThis is very much on a case-by-case basis. Unless by toolbar you mean the menubar at the top of screen which changes for each application.
- motherdearest 9y agoI'm not experiencing any of that. Works immediately for me at this time
- vonseel 9y agoNo performance issue on iOS iPhone 7.
- bwbw223 9y agoI can imagine that updates aren't really necessary in a simple image editor ;)