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This is totally something that I could live with being an Electron app on Linux. Yes, I should be using GIMP/Krita/Other community FOSS solution, but gosh darn

This is totally something that I could live with being an Electron app on Linux. Yes, I should be using GIMP/Krita/Other community FOSS solution, but gosh darnit, sometimes I just wanna make a 20-second markup on a screenshot, and I wanna use the friggin' program that I have a 20-year muscle memory for!

chapium 7y ago
My preferred mspaint workflow: 1. Screenshot thing with screenshot rectangle selector (Win+S on OneNote 2013) 2. Draw red circles and arrows all over it 3. Repeat #1 on mspaint canvas 4. Paste screenshot with annotations to whatever I need pasting it to.
- shultays 7y ago
  I would suggest giving lightshot a try. It does what ask for and saves you time to open paint
dansman805 7y ago
Specifically for screenshot markup, I recommend using flameshot (https://flameshot.js.org/#/ https://flameshot.js.org/#/). It allows you to markup the screenshot right as you take it.
- Nux 7y ago
  Flameshot is sluggish and bloated. If you want the same functionality and more, but fast, try Shutter.
  - ForHackernews 7y ago
    Do either of those work under Wayland? Or only X11?
    - Nux 7y ago
      Not sure tbh. I use it with latest Fedora+MATE at work.
  - themodelplumber 7y ago
    Shutter is fast now? Awesome. I remember when I had to stop using it for a while because it was somehow really unresponsive.
    - Nux 7y ago
      It is compared with flameshot...
thrower123 7y ago
Greenshot is my weapon of choice for that. Hit Print Screen, drag a box of what you want to capture, open in editor and annotate away https://getgreenshot.org/ https://getgreenshot.org/
- yoavm 7y ago
  The parent comment was asking about Linux, which isn't support by Greenshot it seems.
RodgerTheGreat 7y ago
Kolourpaint is a pretty decent linux-based alternative to MSPaint. Same simple featureset and straightforward UI, with the nice added touch of support for transparency.
duckerude 7y ago
MS Paint itself can run in Wine. I believe you can install it with winetricks.
tomtheelder 7y ago
This app has really noticeable and irritating latency vs. native paint that would make it a pain for me to actually use. If we are being honest that's probably an implementation thing, and not just a function of it being JS, but once gain performance problems in a JS app damage the experience for me.
- tomcam 7y ago
  Not on my $300 iPad
epicide 7y ago
The fact that at least 5 people have replied with different tools really just emphasizes your point. Is it a perfect recreation? Of course not. Will it do every sort of image editing I might want? A definite no. Does everybody either quickly learn it or already have its interface burned into their memory? Yep. Does it work well enough to do a quick edit on pretty much any OS (including mobile) without needing anything but a browser and an easy-to-remember link? YES.
- AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
  I try not to begrudge them because they're just trying to be helpful. :)
- deleted 7y ago
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bjornsteffanson 7y ago
Shortcut to the Electron app: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint#desktop-app-electron https://github.com/1j01/jspaint#desktop-app-electron
krapp 7y ago
What would bundling this as an Electron app provide that just bookmarking the site wouldn't? The whole thing probably takes less than a couple of megabytes.

chapium 7y ago

My preferred mspaint workflow: 1. Screenshot thing with screenshot rectangle selector (Win+S on OneNote 2013) 2. Draw red circles and arrows all over it 3. Repeat #1 on mspaint canvas 4. Paste screenshot with annotations to whatever I need pasting it to.

shultays 7y ago
I would suggest giving lightshot a try. It does what ask for and saves you time to open paint

dansman805 7y ago

Specifically for screenshot markup, I recommend using flameshot (https://flameshot.js.org/#/ https://flameshot.js.org/#/). It allows you to markup the screenshot right as you take it.

Nux 7y ago
Flameshot is sluggish and bloated. If you want the same functionality and more, but fast, try Shutter.
- ForHackernews 7y ago
  Do either of those work under Wayland? Or only X11?
  - Nux 7y ago
    Not sure tbh. I use it with latest Fedora+MATE at work.
- themodelplumber 7y ago
  Shutter is fast now? Awesome. I remember when I had to stop using it for a while because it was somehow really unresponsive.
  - Nux 7y ago
    It is compared with flameshot...

thrower123 7y ago

Greenshot is my weapon of choice for that. Hit Print Screen, drag a box of what you want to capture, open in editor and annotate away https://getgreenshot.org/ https://getgreenshot.org/

yoavm 7y ago
The parent comment was asking about Linux, which isn't support by Greenshot it seems.

RodgerTheGreat 7y ago

Kolourpaint is a pretty decent linux-based alternative to MSPaint. Same simple featureset and straightforward UI, with the nice added touch of support for transparency.

duckerude 7y ago

MS Paint itself can run in Wine. I believe you can install it with winetricks.

tomtheelder 7y ago

This app has really noticeable and irritating latency vs. native paint that would make it a pain for me to actually use. If we are being honest that's probably an implementation thing, and not just a function of it being JS, but once gain performance problems in a JS app damage the experience for me.

tomcam 7y ago
Not on my $300 iPad

epicide 7y ago

The fact that at least 5 people have replied with different tools really just emphasizes your point. Is it a perfect recreation? Of course not. Will it do every sort of image editing I might want? A definite no. Does everybody either quickly learn it or already have its interface burned into their memory? Yep. Does it work well enough to do a quick edit on pretty much any OS (including mobile) without needing anything but a browser and an easy-to-remember link? YES.

AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
I try not to begrudge them because they're just trying to be helpful. :)
deleted 7y ago
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bjornsteffanson 7y ago

Shortcut to the Electron app: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint#desktop-app-electron https://github.com/1j01/jspaint#desktop-app-electron

krapp 7y ago

What would bundling this as an Electron app provide that just bookmarking the site wouldn't? The whole thing probably takes less than a couple of megabytes.