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I hope this means Paint.NET can now be ported to Linux. Pinta just doesn't cut it as a substitute. IIRC, while Paint.NET was under the MIT license at that time

I hope this means Paint.NET can now be ported to Linux. Pinta just doesn't cut it as a substitute. IIRC, while Paint.NET was under the MIT license at that time, porting to Mono was not possible because of the lack of WinForms. Not sure where I read that, maybe here: http://www.osnews.com/story/22843/Introducing_Pinta_a_Gtk_Clone_of_Paint_NET http://www.osnews.com/story/22843/Introducing_Pinta_a_Gtk_Cl...

ygra 8y ago
First of all, just being open-source doesn't make Windows Forms or WPF cross-platform and in fact, that's specifically not the goal or focus here. Secondly, Paint.NET includes quite a bit of non-WinForms/WPF code by now, talking directly to DirectWrite and Direct2D in places and probably other things as well. It's very much a Windows-only application and porting it would require rewriting a lot of important core code of the application.