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Wow - a Linux port of a large, complex, old school .NET app like Paint.NET is a higher bar for cross-platform UI than I was aware .NET supported at this point
by yodon 5y ago
Wow - a Linux port of a large, complex, old school .NET app like Paint.NET is a higher bar for cross-platform UI than I was aware .NET supported at this point
- Zababa 5y agoPinta is not a port. It uses GTK+ and cairo. Some code comes from Paint.NET but not all of it.
- Macha 5y agoYeah, up until 3.x Paint.NET was released under a MIT license in a source available sense (no outside contributions accepted, just source dumps with releases). The author didn't like when people would relabel paint.net and release it (sometimes for a fee), so he stopped doing that somewhere during 3.x. Pinta is based on using the engine for one of those with a new Gtk# UI. Though at this stage a lot of that's been rewritten, so it's pretty much just some filters that are used as-is from old Paint.NET. Even though Paint.NET moves much slower these days, Pinta has moved even slower and the UI rewrite was never as polished as Paint.NET's WPF UI.
- Zababa 5y agoThanks for the clarification!